Music and Public Health: A Nordic Perspective

Contents

• PART ONE: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES
• Ola Ekholm & Lars Ole Bonde (DK): A Danish Music and Public Health Study: Some conclusions and consequences for preventive projects Abstract: A summary of the first Danish study on music and Public Health with 14.000 respondents will include selected res
• Toeres Theorell (maybe with coauthors) (S): Musicality and creativity: The role of musical abilities as predictors. Abstract: There is a well-established statistical relationship between musical ability (rhythm, pitch, and melody) and general intelligenc
• Our research results point at a complex web of musical (and, in general, artistic) experiences as well as emotional skills as being of importance for recruiting and maintaining workers in creative occupations. The findings are partly gender specific. In t
• Fredrik Ullen (with members of his team) (S): Topic to be decided (Abstract to follow)
• Steinar Krokstad (with co-author(s) to be identified) (N): HUNT data on music and health revisited (Abstract to follow)
• PART TWO: THEORY
• Suvi Saarikallio & Margarida Baltazar (SF): Music as a forum for social-emotional health Abstract: A review and discussion of recent research on how music contributes to social-emotional competence, well-being, and related growth.
• B rynjulf Stige (N) (and maybe also Karette Stensaeth (N)): Health musicking and prophylaxis Abstract (preliminary): A discussion of the concepts of Health and Participation in the context of the book.
• PART THREE: MUSIC AS A PROPHYLACTIC RESOURCE - CLINICAL/PRACTICAL PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES
• Eva Bojner Horwitz (S): Humanizing a working environment with cultural and musical activities Abstract: The article summarizes a number of research studies on how participation in cultural activities and art experience - using the specific model of the "
• Kari Bjerke-Batt-Rawden & Gunnar Telnes (N): The Health Musicking Program - new approach to promoting health and quality of life in local contexts Abstract: Introduction: Few researchers have used action research, involving participants from local commun
• Aim: The main purpose is to increase knowledge as to how musical activities can promote mental and somatic health. More specifically, how men and women in local communities can gain increased health, sense of coherence (SOC), and quality of life by partic
• The Health Musicking Program: The health musicking program focuses on whether participants could, through exposure to and exchange of new musical materials and practices, learn to use music as a 'technology' of health promotion and self-care. Through invo
• Anne Haugland Balsnes (N): Choral singing for a better life Abstract: The chapter presents seven choral singers with different backgrounds, life situations, and choir types. The narratives are based upon a number of the author's empirical studies. Aim of
• Tora Soenderstroem & Gro Trondalen (N): Group music therapy for first-time mothers and their infants at local community health care centres Abstract: The article explores the experience of nine first-time mothers participating in a music therapy group at
• Stine L. Jacobsen (possibly with Helle Nystrup Lund and Lars Rye Bertelsen (DK): Music as integral part of 'Culture by prescription' Abstract: The chapter will present results of the first phase in the project 'Culture by prescription' in the municipalit