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Right by your side? – the relational scope of health and wellbeing as congruence, complement and coincidence
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI), Health and Sport. Department of Education, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8173-9242
2021 (English)In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, ISSN 1748-2623, E-ISSN 1748-2631, Vol. 16, no 1, article id 1927482Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: Although the relation between health and well-being is deemed conceptually important, it is diverse and intractable. The aim of this small-scale study is to reveal different possible relations of the concepts of health and well-being, interrelation of these relations and consequences of implied normative expectations in the relations.

Method: Primary data originate from course literature in Swedish health education. Additional data included scientific articles and website content (collected from WHO and via Google) and were analysed with objective hermeneutics.

Results: Congruent, complementary and coincident relations were found. In congruence, health and well-being are synonyms. Complement relations contain: “quality” with well-being as overall aim, “plurality” with health as umbrella term, “well-being as positive health”, “enhancement” with health and well-being potentially boosting each other and “subjectivity/objectivity” with objective health complemented by subjective well-being. In coincidence, health and well-being are counter-intuitively regarded unlinked, which may challenge expectations concerning health promotive activities. Independent and affiliated relations were identified.

Conclusion: In congruence and complement, health and well-being are mostly aligned whereas in coincidence, their quality may be decoupled. In the discursive climate of second modernity, the relation of health and well-being tends to conflict and ambiguous coincidence, demanding ambiguity tolerance as key skill. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2021. Vol. 16, no 1, article id 1927482
Keywords [en]
concept relation, Health, hermeneutics, normativity, Sweden, well-being
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-46015DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2021.1927482ISI: 000658877200001PubMedID: 34098858Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85107621468OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-46015DiVA, id: diva2:1616718
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Funding: This study was supported by strategic resources of Halmstad University.

Available from: 2021-12-03 Created: 2021-12-03 Last updated: 2022-04-08Bibliographically approved

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