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ARTS IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE

February 17, 2023 by Alain Bouchard, MD 1 Comment

This article was written in collaboration with Kimberly Kirklin, Director of UAB Arts In Medicine, and Dr Rachel Easterwood, a Hospitalist with Mount Sinai Health System in New York.

ARTS IN HEALTH

Arts in Health is a diverse, multidisciplinary approach dedicated to improving health through arts. 

The field integrates visual arts and design, musical, literary, and performing arts into healthcare and community settings to enhance health and well-being. 

Arts in Health can involve artists trained to implement art to promote healing in healthcare and community settings. 

Recently, Arts in public health have emerged as a medium to enhance population health through wellness and prevention and to address social determinants of health and inequities. 

Arts in Health serves as an adjunct to medical care and public health. Creativity and culture can help with healing through physical, emotional, social, and spiritual means of improving health and preventing disease. 

Arts in health can help individuals and population Health:

Participating in Arts activities can improve health and well-being by increasing physical activity and reducing stress. It can foster social interaction and reduce isolation. It can help in coping with chronic conditions and increase well-being such as “Dance for PD” for patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Arts in health can facilitate healthcare access and health equity. 

It can help integrate healthcare services, particularly with culturally and ethnically diverse populations.

Strengthen social connections and increase the stability of vulnerable populations.

Arts in Health can bring a cultural expression into safe and engaging spaces like the “Culture of Recovery” in eastern Kentucky or the “Clemmons Farm Family” in Vermont. Support services can move into an environment where young adults can recover from drug addiction or where racism or social isolation can be addressed.

Arts in Health is a great medium to address determinants of poor health and disparities. A musical or cinematographic platform can be used to increase awareness and address stigmatized issues.

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  1. Dr karthik tummala says

    February 17, 2023 at 6:58 am

    This is one of the great informative posts and wonderful articles I have come across. very good and positive approach too. Thank you for sharing this wonderful post
    I am Dr. Karthik a Medical cardiologist in Hyderabad. Most of my patients consider me one of the best Medical Cardiologists. With an overall experience of more than 13 years.

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Alain Bouchard, MD

Dr. Alain Bouchard is a clinical cardiologist at Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham, AL. He is a native of Quebec, Canada and trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. He continued as a Research Fellow at the Montreal Heart Institute. He did a clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. He joined the faculty at the University of Alabama Birmingham from 1986 to 1990. He worked at CardiologyPC and Baptist Medical Center at Princeton from 1990-2019. He is now part of the Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham at St. Vincent's Health System, Ascension.

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