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The New Science of Thriving [Magazine.JHSPH.edu]

 

In the early 1970s, my grandmother had a disagreement with the Beatles.

When she heard “All You Need is Love” play on the radio, she would reply, “All you need is inside of you.”

When I was a PhD student in the early 1990s, these messages bounced around in my mind along with my epidemiology and econometrics lessons. It was then that I began amassing evidence that led me to two conclusions: First, public health, medicine and public policy needed to address long-neglected social and emotional determinants of health; and second, we could not medicate our way to health. Rather, our relationships and what’s inside our hearts and minds matter most to health and have everything to do with love. My grandmother and the Fab Four were both right.

The realization that our relationships and experiences in childhood profoundly shape our lives changed my career path. I became determined to put social and emotional well-being on the public health policy agenda.



[For more of this story, written by Chistina Bethell, go to http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2016...-thriving/index.html]

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