Transcript Social relationships have big impact

Technology-Enhanced Recovery
and advances in Public Health
RECOVERY IS ALL
ABOUT CHANGE
Behaviour Changes
• Stopping Smoking
• Eating too much bad stuff (sugar addiction?)
- obesity & type 2 diabetes
• Drinking too much alcohol (how much is ‘too
much’?)
• Socially Isolating
• Taking exercise
• “Addiction” to alcohol and drugs
CHANGE = CHANGE!
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In the real human world this means:
Identifying and changing social networks
Positive
ProRecovery
people IN
Negative
AntiRecovery
people OUT
5 Ways to Well Being:
1. Connect
2. Keep Learning
3. Take Notice
4. Give
5. Be Active
Social relationships have big impact:
comparative odds of decreased mortality
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Social relationships: Overall findings from this meta-analysis
Social relationships: High vs. low social support contrasted
Social relationships: Complex measures of social integration
Smoking <15 cigarettes daily
Smoking cessation: Cease vs. continue in patients with CHD
Alcohol consumption: Abstinence vs. excessive drinking
Flu vaccine: Pneumococcal vaccination in adults
Social relationships have as great an
impact on health outcomes as smoking
cessation, and more than physical activity
and issues to address obesity
Cardiac rehabilitation (exercise) for patients with CHD
Physical activity (controlling for adiposty)
BMI: Lean vs. obese
Drug treatment for hypertension in populations > 59 years
Air pollution: low vs. high
Holt-Lunstad J et al. PLoS Med. 2010;7:e1000316
CONNECT
- On Line Meetings
- 12 step
- SMART
- In The Rooms
- Facebook Groups
- Chat Rooms
-Twitter
ON LINE MEETINGS
DISCUSSION GROUPS & CHAT ROOMS
FACEBOOK GROUPS
KEEP LEARNING
GIVE (ON LINE VOLUNTEERING)
TAKING NOTICE
(ON LINE MINDFULNESS)
BE ACTIVE
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Get Started An Online Map…
TOPIC
ACTION
SCORE 5=High 1=Low
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Connect
•SMART RECOVERY
•AA, NA, CA, OA...
•Facebook
•Twitter
•Discussion Groups
•Chat Rooms
Keep Learning
Give
•Volunteering
•On Line Community
Involvement
•Facebook Facilitator
•Moderator
Taking Notice
• Mindfulness Online
• Spiritual groups
Be Active
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