New evidence shows that psychosocial and economic stressors influence health outcomes. Health care systems lack the tools and methods to integrate social and economic factors into diagnosis or preventive care.
Najmeh Khalili-Mahani, a QPRN member, is a professor at Concordia University and director of the Media-Health/Gaming-Clinic Lab.
In this article she presents the effects of stress load in all its forms on health. The link between the effects of stress and certain pathologies or pain is often difficult to determine and makes diagnosis difficult. According to her, our health care system is not equipped to deal with the psychosocial determinants of health, which are situational and cultural, thus requiring more than a clinical approach to care.
In this context Najmeh Khalili-Mahani and her fellow researchers have recently suggested that gaming offers an alternative way of approaching research and acting in an enabling digital ecosystem.
