Social Entrepreneurship, Population Health, and Wellbeing in the Swedish Welfare Context : Opportunities and Challenges

• Social entrepreneurs tend to combine revenue goals with serving social needs, and thus operate within both for-profit and non-profit institutional structures. The double bottom line poses social entrepreneurs the challenge of balancing social value creation with market realities. Social entrepreneurship can have an impact on the sustainable development goals, particularly Goal 3 (health for all people at all ages). In Sweden, social entrepreneurship is still a new conception that needs to be understood as a part of the country’s evolving public welfare system. The aim of the present short report is to assess how social entrepreneurs have promoted health and wellbeing in the Swedish context, and to identify future opportunities and challenges. From the population health perspective, and in the context of sustainable development, we see a research opportunity to analyse social enterprise as an upstream health intervention to improve the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Social entrepreneurship

Sweden

population health

social determinants

upstream intervention

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vet (ämneskategori)

rap (ämneskategori)