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Transcript of Tim Joss (Public Engagement Foundation)
ARTS & HEALTH: BEYOND ‘FLUFF’
Tim JossChair – Public Engagement Foundation
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Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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ARTS & HEALTH’S LOW STATUS IN HEALTH POLICYPublic view: low priority ‘fluff’. Patchy evidence baseProgrammes’ variable quality Poor mutual understanding and collaboration between arts and healthFew arts organisations are commission-able Policy not joined up at the national level
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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ARTS & HEALTH’S LOW STATUS IN ARTS POLICY
Demand for ‘great art’False tension: intrinsic v instrumental benefitsPrevalence of supply-side approachesEvaluation aversion
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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TOWARDS A SOLUTION‘Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, colour, by light, we do know this, that they have a physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients is the actual means of recovery.’
Florence Nightingale Notes on Hospitals 1885
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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ADDRESS BARRIERS (1) –Health, culture & social outcomes
Infancy of cultural outcome researchIssues of measurabilityRelationship between these three types of outcome
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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ADDRESS BARRIERS (2) –Two moreNo connection with health economicsArts on prescription – Walnut Tree Practice,
Dursley, GloucestershireMusic & pain – Barts & The London
Arts in health as complex interventionsA brush with NIHR – controlling variablesArtwork as uniqueSubjective experience
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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FROM MARKET FAILURE TO MARKET SUCCESSEvidence of medical benefit +Health economics +Business model += Sustainable arts interventions in healthFinal example: Patient diaries in ICUs with creative writers
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-being Workshop 19 to 21 September 2011 - Cardiff
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