Harvard Chan This Week in Health Podcast, July 11, 2019

"What does it mean for someone to flourish? Flourishing is more than just being happy—although that’s a part of it. But the idea of flourishing expands beyond happiness to look at a person’s overall well-being, taking into account things like life satisfaction or someone’s sense of purpose. That’s why studying flourishing is an interdisciplinary science drawing on public health, philosophy, psychology, and more.

In this week’s episode we’re talking to two researchers from Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University who are tackling big questions about flourishing: What does it mean for people to flourish? How do we measure it? And are there things that make people more or less likely to flourish?

Our guests are Tyler VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program and John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard Chan School, and Matthew Wilson, associate director of the Human Flourishing Program and a research associate at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science."

Five Areas of Flourishing (from the podcast)
-  Happiness and Life Satisfaction
-  Mental and Physical Health
-  Meaning and Purpose
-  Character and Virtue
-  Close Social Relationships

To listen to the podcast:
https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/ne...ng-and-public-health

Additional Resources
The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science
https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/

Resource List - Hope, Happiness and Well-Being
https://www.pacesconnection.com...ess-and-well-being-1