@article{3a049750145b472faab6e225acc4575c,
title = "How Do You Build a {"}culture of Health{"}? A Critical Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities from Medical Anthropology",
abstract = "The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Action Framework aims to {"}make health a shared value{"}and improve population health equity through widespread culture change. The authors draw upon their expertise as anthropologists to identify 3 challenges that they believe must be addressed in order to effectively achieve the health equity and population health improvement goals of the Culture of Health initiative: clarifying and demystifying the concept of {"}culture,{"}contextualizing {"}community{"}within networks of power and inequality, and confronting the crises of trust and solidarity in the contemporary United States. The authors suggest that those who seek to build a {"}Culture of Health{"}refine their understanding of how {"}culture{"}is experienced, advocate for policies and practices that break down unhealthy consolidations of power, and innovate solutions to building consensus in a divided nation.",
keywords = "anthropology, culture of health, health equity",
author = "Mason, {Katherine A.} and Willen, {Sarah S.} and Holmes, {Seth M.} and Herd, {Denise A.} and Mark Nichter and Heide Casta{\~n}eda and Helena Hansen",
note = "Funding Information: Funding was received from the US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant # P2C HD041020. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant # 74898. Dr. Holmes acknowledges funding from the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars program. Funding Information: Dr. Mason was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University (2013–2015), and is a consultant on the ARCHES project, which is funded by RWJF. Dr. Willen is Principal Investigator (PI) of RWJF Grant # 74898 {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Investigating conceptions of health equity and barriers to making health a shared value{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} (ARCHES | the AmeRicans{\textquoteright} Conceptions of Health Equity Study). Dr. Holmes was a RWJF Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University (2009–2011). Dr. Nichter was a core member of the RWJF funded Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN) and served on the RWJF National Advisory Board for the Health & Society Scholars Fellowship, 2011– 2016. Dr. Herd received the RWJF 2000 Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Award, served as mentor for the RWJF Developing Leadership in Substance Abuse Prevention, and was PI on 2 RWJF funded projects (Substance Abuse Policy Research Grant on Alcohol-Related Social Movements in Inner City Communities and Images of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence in Rap Music). Dr. Casta{\~n}eda is a consultant on the RWJF-funded ARCHES project. Dr. Hansen was a RWJF Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University (2009–2011), and a RWJF Health Policy Investigator Awardee (2014–2018). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright 2020, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1089/pop.2019.0179",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "476--481",
journal = "Population Health Management",
issn = "1942-7891",
publisher = "Mary Ann Liebert Inc.",
number = "6",
}