Adapting and implementing arts and health interventions: A thinking tool

There is growing evidence for the role the arts can play in improving health and wellbeing. However, there is relatively little information on how to adapt and implement arts and health interventions to different cultural contexts. As arts interventions are inherently tied to the cultural context in which they take place, it is important to focus on how to effectively run these implementation projects.

WHO and local partners implemented a singing for postpartum depression intervention in three countries (Denmark, Italy, and Romania), in order to investigate whether this intervention could translate to different cultural contexts. Based on the experience of conducting this study, this thinking tool has been developed to highlight key considerations that can be taken when adapting existing arts and health interventions to different cultural contexts.

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