From Cultural Rights to Capabilities: Reframing Arts Participation in Health and Care Systems

This paper examines cultural well-being as a critical but under-theorised dimension of contemporary health and care systems. Drawing on research conducted within the Finnish ArtsEqual project, it develops a model grounded in the capability approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum to ask a central [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]

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German Medical Science (German Research Foundation)
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2026-06-12
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https://doi.org/10.3205/26isfam023
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Art Therapy and Mental Health
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From Cultural Rights to Capabilities: Reframing Arts Participation in Health and Care Systems

Kai Lehikoinen
German Medical Science (German Research Foundation)
Art Therapy and Mental Health
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From Cultural Rights to Capabilities: Reframing Arts Participation in Health and Care Systems

Kai Lehikoinen
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Abstract

This paper examines cultural well-being as a critical but under-theorised dimension of contemporary health and care systems. Drawing on research conducted within the Finnish ArtsEqual project, it develops a model grounded in the capability approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum to ask a central [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]

German Medical Science (German Research Foundation)
University of the Arts Helsinki (FI)
Openalex Percentile: Top 3%
Art Therapy and Mental Health
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