Music and Public Health

From the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) comes an exciting source of theoretical approaches, epidemiological findings, and real-life examples regarding the therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of music. Experts across fields including psychology, neurology, music therapy, medicine, and public health review research on the benefits of music in relieving physiological, psychological, and socioemotional dysfunction. Chapters link musical experiences (listening and performing, as well as involvement in movement, dance, and theatre) to a wide range of clinical and non-clinical objectives such as preventing isolation, regulating mood, reducing stress and its symptoms, and treating dementia. And the book's section on innovative music-based interventions illustrates opportunities for incorporating musical activities into public health programs.

Among the topics covered are:

· Associations between the use of music, cultural participation andhealth-related outcomes in adult Scandinavian populations

· Music practice and emotion handling

· How music translates itself biologically in the body

· Music as a forum for social-emotional health

· Participation and partnership as core concepts in music and public health

· Music therapy as health promotion for mothers and children at a public health clinic

Music and Public Health will gain interested readers among researchers, teachers, students, and clinicians in the fields of music education and therapy, as well as researchers and students of public health who are interested in the influence of culture and the arts. The book also will be relevant to administrators in public health services.

Is the first book to document the full potential of music as a public health resource Provides the foundation of a new understanding of the potential of music to improve physical and mental health Presents a combination of epidemiological and clinical evidence for musicking as a health resource in a Nordic perspective related to the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland Offers a unique collection of scholarly writings from leading researchers in the Nordic countries

Auteur
Lars Ole Bonde, PhD , is professor of Music Therapy at Aalborg University in Denmark. He also is professor of Music and Health at the Center for Research in Music and Health at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway.
Töres Theorell, MD, PhD , is a physician with specialty in internal medicine, cardiology, and social medicine. Dr. Theorell was professor of Psychosocial Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden from 1995 to 2006. After retirement, he has been working as scientific consultant at the Stress Research Institute at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. He also is an amateur musician.

Contenu
A Danish Music and Public Health Study: Some conclusions and consequences for preventive projects.- Musicality and creativity: The role of musical abilities as predictors.- HUNT data on music and health revisited.- Music as a forum for social-emotional health.- Health musicking and prophylaxis.- Humanizing a working environment with cultural and musical activities.- new approach to promoting health and quality of life in local contexts.- Choral singing for a better life.- Group music therapy for first-time mothers and their infants at local community health care centres.- Music as integral part of 'Culture by prescription'.