Social Determinants of Health and Well-being
Social Determinants of Health and Well-being
Podcast: Diversity & Belonging: This Australian Life
Host: Dr Susan Sisko
Guest: Dr Matt Fisher
An insightful conversation and reframe on what actually cultivates health and wellness.
Core Premise
In this 30-minute episode, Dr Sisko converses with Dr Matt Fisher about how health is determine by various social factors, and if we want to improve public health, we need to be creating environments where people are able to thrive and flourish. This includes our environmental ecosystems, our cities, towns, communities, work places, families, etc. How can we shape our culture and our world in a way that supports our overall health and well-being?
Connection to Eutierria Therapy
This podcast episode is essential to Eutierria Therapy because it helps us to understand that health and illness is something that soley exists within an individual. Through this discussion we are reminded that we are part of a world of relationships, where all things interact and impact one another. If healthcare is to truly heal and provide health, it must be taking into account our whole environment and all of our relationships.
The learnings from this episode challenge the notion of individualized “disorders” and puts the focus on the relationships that the individual is a part of that are possibly not healthy. This helps us to zoom out to recognize that maybe the attention needs to be placed on the relational pathology versus the individual themselves.
Read our full Eutierria Philosophy here.
Key Takeaways & Application
• For the Embodied Self: Improving your health and well-being is not always about self-improvement, it’s also about ensuring that your environment and relationships are healthy. Explore ways to improve your relational environments.
• For the Practitioner: A major portion of our work is to support participants in developing their skills of relationality. Help participants become aware of all the webs of their relationships and guide them in how they can strengthen and heal the web.
