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This chapter describes some of the challenges facing the healthcare sector which have led us to reflect on how we might redesign and transform healthcare services. We have developed a theoretical framework of wellbeing on which we have developed previously unimagined interventions for delivery in a community brain injury service in South Wales in the United Kingdom. This framework is inspired by social ecological theory and systems-informed thinking in which the individual is positioned within increasing phenomenological scales, extending to the ecosystem and the life course, highlighting systemic influences on wellbeing that also change over time. We present a concrete example from our own work relating to how we have begun to promote a culture of care that extends beyond the healthcare sector into the community and natural environment. Key implications of our work for building societal wellbeing include the need to: (1) promote wellbeing which is not the same as reducing ‘ill-being’, (2) support the person to adapt and function well within the context of the wider systems in which the person is embedded, (3) foster cultures of care through strategic partnerships across organisations, and (4) commit to the science and art of system transformation with an eye on co-production of knowledge and co-creation of opportunity. A focus on wellbeing lays the foundation for improving ‘whole health’ at scale, involving a deeper appreciation for individual, collective and planetary wellbeing.
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Gibbs, K., Fisher, Z., Kemp, A.H. (2022). Towards a Culture of Care for Societal Wellbeing: A Perspective from the Healthcare Sector. In: Kemp, A.H., Edwards, D.J. (eds) Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18329-4_4
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