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Social Model—Innovation and Behavioural Intervention as a Public Policy of Action within an Oncology and Loneliness Scope
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: The article presents concepts and the Public Health Policy University of Lisbon Lab project
to answer questions about the macro-environment of cancer and loneliness. Although the biomedical
model has considered the disease’s general symptoms, it takes a holistic approach to incorporate
several other circumstances that influence health. Emotional, social, psychological, and economic
factors mirror influencing layers that affect wellness. Portugal follows Europe’s tendency and
simultaneously reflects its reality. Governmental internal policies, amplified by regulations, improve
disease prevention and treatment. Nevertheless, it focuses on the general population instead of on
the individual. Once cancer, one of the leading causes of global death, is perceived as an isolated
incident, we believe macro-environmental circumstances, and not only biological ones, must be
considered. Furthermore, cancer in the elderly intensifies solicitude, and expanded policies and
actions demand individual health determinants. In the Portuguese Public Health Policy, we started a
collaborative Oncology, Human Kinetics, and Public Health Policy project. This is the first project
of the Public Health Policy Lab from the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University
of Lisbon. Based on a brief review of two research projects on improving cancer patients’ health,
we promote micro-organisational projects to deal with the social phenomena of loneliness, physical
activity, and lifestyle. As a sequence of the well-known social determinants, we endorse political
determinants as the basis for public health. The latest worldwide governmental trend is to create
public labs as an innovation of political policymaking. Throughout this reflection, the need for a new
rational approach specially designed for a social model is considered.
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public health; political determinants; social determinants; public lab; cancer; elderly; loneliness
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Fonseca, V.; Caeiro, J.; Nogueira, F. Social Model— Innovation and Behavioural Intervention as a Public Policy of Action within an Oncology and Loneliness Scope. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1544. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su13031544
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MDPI