STREAM 10: SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Description

In the Social Innovation for Health and Wellbeing stream we welcome papers exploring the role of social innovation (broadly defined) on health and well-being. The sorts of impacts we imagine that social innovations might seek to address could be at the level of individuals, communities, or even systems-level impacts on health and well-being. Typical topics of interest might include: the social impact of new health and well-being technologies; new forms of relationship between the state and civil society focused on addressing a particular health or healthcare issue; or the impact of community-led interventions on addressing ‘upstream’ factors in the social environment that we know shape how we live, work and age.

The role of social innovation(s) in addressing crucial issues such as health equity (Farmer et al., 2018; Mason et al., 2015) remains of critical importance, as is empirical work on the potential of social innovations such as social enterprises (Roy et al., 2014; Roy and Farmer, 2021), microfinance institutions (McHugh et al., 2017), or innovative community-led initiatives such as ‘Men’s Sheds’ (Kelly et al., 2019a) to address specific health or healthcare challenges (Calò et al., 2018; Hall et al., 2015). We are especially interested in innovative approaches to addressing ‘upstream’ social determinants of health (Henderson et al., 2019; Kelly et al., 2019b; Macaulay et al., 2018; Suchowerska et al., 2019) and so welcome papers in this stream that adopt an imaginative perspective to developing theory or methods to this exciting area of research focus.

References

Calò, F., Teasdale, S., Donaldson, C., Roy, M.J., Baglioni, S., 2018. Collaborator or Competitor: Assessing the Evidence Supporting the Role of Social Enterprise in Health and Social Care. Public Management Review 20, 1790–1814. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2017.1417467

Farmer, J., Carlisle, K., Dickson-Swift, V., Teasdale, S., Kenny, A., Taylor, J., Croker, F., Marini, K., Gussy, M., 2018. Applying Social Innovation Theory to Examine How Community Co-Designed Health Services Develop: Using a Case Study Approach and Mixed Methods. BMC Health Services Research 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2852-0

Hall, K., Miller, R., Millar, R., 2015. Public, Private or Neither? Analysing the Publicness of Health Care Social Enterprises. Public Management Review 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2015.1014398

Henderson, F., Steiner, A., Mazzei, M., Docherty, C., 2019. Social Enterprises’ Impact on Older People’s Health and Wellbeing: Exploring Scottish Experiences. Health Promotion International daz102. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz102

Kelly, D., Steiner, A., Mason, H., Teasdale, S., 2019a. Men’s Sheds: A Conceptual Exploration of the Causal Pathways for Health and Well-Being. Health & Social Care in the Community 27, 1147–1157. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12765

Kelly, D., Steiner, A., Mazzei, M., Baker, R., 2019b. Filling a Void? The Role of Social Enterprise in Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness in Rural Communities. Journal of Rural Studies 70, 225–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.01.024

Macaulay, B., Mazzei, M., Roy, M.J., Teasdale, S., Donaldson, C., 2018. Differentiating the Effect of Social Enterprise Activities on Health. Social Science & Medicine 200, 211–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.042

Mason, C., Barraket, J., Friel, S., O’Rourke, K., Stenta, C.-P., 2015. Social Innovation for the Promotion of Health Equity. Health Promotion International 30, ii116–ii125. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dav076

McHugh, N., Biosca, O., Donaldson, C., 2017. From Wealth to Health: Evaluating Microfinance as a Complex Intervention. Evaluation 23, 209–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389017697622

Roy, M.J., Donaldson, C., Baker, R., Kerr, S., 2014. The Potential of Social Enterprise to Enhance Health and Well-Being: A Model and Systematic Review. Social Science & Medicine 123, 182–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.031

Roy, M.J., Farmer, J. (Eds.), 2021. Beyond the State of the Art: Where Do We Go Next on the Topic of Social Enterprise, Health and Wellbeing?, in: Social Enterprise, Health and Wellbeing: Theory, Methods and Practice, Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 268–290.

Suchowerska, R., Barraket, J., Qian, J., Mason, C., Farmer, J., Carey, G., Campbell, P., Joyce, A., 2019. An Organizational Approach to Understanding How Social Enterprises Address Health Inequities: A Scoping Review. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2019.1640771