商品描述
A new scientific framework for enabling all people to thrive across their full life course. Why do some people thrive while others languish? And what would it take to change that? In
Thriving, Christopher Forrest and Neal Halfon argue that the answer lies not in individual effort nor biology alone, but in the relationships between people and the ecosystems humans create, inhabit, and transform together.
Written by two physician-scientists with over seventy combined years of work in medicine, public health, and life course science,
Thriving introduces a new scientific framework for one of the defining challenges of our time: how to enable all people to thrive across their lifespan. The book proposes that health, wellbeing, and resilience--what the authors call the "Triple Helix" of thriving--are not fixed traits but emergent properties of individuals interacting with one another and the ecosystems in which they live.
Drawing on examples from the United States--including an analysis of American children's declining health and a city-level transformation initiative in Pomona, California--its concepts and tools apply wherever people are asking why some communities thrive while others fall behind and languish. Moving from foundational science to practical transformation, this wide-ranging and interdisciplinary book culminates in a call for building a new social architecture grounded in the goal of thriving for all people, across the full arc of life.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
讓所有人在完整生命歷程中蓬勃發展的新科學框架
為什麼有些人能夠蓬勃發展，而另一些人卻逐漸陷入困境？我們又要如何改變這種情況？在《Thriving》一書中，Christopher Forrest 與 Neal Halfon 主張，答案不在於個人的努力，也不單純取決於生物學，而在於人與人之間的關係，以及人類共同創造、居住並持續改造的生態系統。
《Thriving》由兩位醫師科學家合著，兩人在醫學、公共衛生與生命歷程科學領域累積了超過七十年的工作經驗。本書提出一套全新的科學框架，探討我們這個時代最關鍵的挑戰之一：如何讓所有人在完整的生命歷程中都能蓬勃發展。作者主張，健康、福祉與韌性——也就是作者所稱的蓬勃發展「三重螺旋」（Triple Helix）——並非固定不變的特質，而是個體彼此互動，以及與其所處生態系統互動後所產生的性質。
本書以美國的案例為基礎，包括對美國兒童健康狀況惡化的分析，以及在加州 Pomona 推動的城市層級轉型計畫；書中的概念與工具，適用於任何正在探問「為什麼有些社群能夠蓬勃發展，而另一些社群卻落後並逐漸陷入困境」的情境。本書橫跨多個領域，從基礎科學一路探討至實務轉型，最後呼籲建立一種全新的社會架構，以讓所有人都能在完整的人生歷程中蓬勃發展為核心目標。
作者簡介
Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD is Professor of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and the founder and Director of PEDSnet, a national pediatric learning health system. His career has helped establish the fields of child health services research, learning health systems science, and life course health science. He coedited the
Handbook of Life Course Health Development. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA in the Geffen School of Medicine and the Fielding School of Public Health where he also serves as Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children Families and Communities. He is a health systems scholar known for his pioneering work on life course health development, and a national leader in implementing new ways for communities to promote early child development. He coedited
Child Rearing in America and the
Handbook of Life Course Health Development.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD 是費城兒童醫院（Children's Hospital of Philadelphia）及 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 的兒科教授，也是全國性兒科學習型健康照護系統 PEDSnet 的創辦人與主任。他的職業生涯促成了兒童健康服務研究、學習型健康系統科學（learning health systems science）以及生命歷程健康科學（life course health science）等領域的建立。他共同編輯了《生命歷程健康發展手冊》（Handbook of Life Course Health Development）。他是美國國家醫學院（National Academy of Medicine）院士。
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH 是 UCLA Geffen School of Medicine 及 Fielding School of Public Health 的榮譽退休特聘教授，並擔任 UCLA 健康兒童、家庭與社區中心（UCLA Center for Healthier Children Families and Communities）的創辦主任。他是健康系統研究學者，以在生命歷程健康發展方面的先驅性研究，以及在全國推動社區採用新方法促進幼兒早期發展的領導地位而聞名。他共同編輯了《在美國養育兒童》（Child Rearing in America）及《生命歷程健康發展手冊》（Handbook of Life Course Health Development）。
