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It’s time to prioritize health creation – not just care and prevention
This post introduces MedCity News readers to the ongoing thinking at Wellthcare, a concept that was first covered in this publication when it articulated the idea of the ‘wantified self’ (November 4th...
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Pernicious moralising: When public health fails
The last few weeks have been exceedingly busy as we finalised the Wellthcare Manifesto, interviewed more Wellth Creators, and started work on what a meeting on ‘health creation’ might look like and...
View ArticleFrugal Innovation: Learning from the developing world
In this post, I am reproducing a chapter from The Alpine Review by Charles Leadbeater. He argues that creating the health systems of tomorrow will mean learning from the developing world, so-called...
View ArticleMedicaid as a catalyst for community
In California, it’s a tale almost worthy of Hollywood. In 2008, Alex Briscoe, the Director of Alameda County’s Health Care Services Agency, stood watching a demonstration against the police after the...
View ArticleCreating health: avoiding the trap of lazy superiority
I’m finding it hard to start this post because I have to start with an admission. It’s an admission of laziness, of presumed superiority. In many ways I have slipped into the very behaviour I have...
View ArticleCreating a parallel system to health care
This post was first published on Wellthcare. This week I’ve despaired at how the needs of the few always seem to trump those of the many, especially when it comes to health. It made me feel nervous —...
View ArticleSeeing beyond the bio-medical model
This post was first published on Wellthcare. In over a year of exploring what it takes to create health through communities few articles have better summarised the challenge and the possibilities...
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How doctors’ failures will lead to social unrest
This post was first published on Wellthcare. The cost of health care is contributing to the social unrest we’re seeing all around the world and doctors are utterly failing to respond. Those were the...
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Complex, Plural and a Constant Struggle: The Future of Health
There was a moment, when I was sitting stage-side at TEDMED 2013, when I saw the future of health. It wasn’t bright, it wasn’t full of answers; it was complex, plural and a constant struggle. And yet...
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What true collaboration looks like when the goal is improving health
Nine organisations have joined Wellthcare to debate and plan how to make creating health the norm. Last week was the first meeting. For the time-being the group is being called the ‘Creating Health...
View ArticleUnderstanding What Communities Really Value
There is nothing more convincing that someone citing research, and yet we often don’t know if what’s being cited is any good. Research can be bad if it’s poorly conducted or if the wrong evaluative...
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Creating health: 12 emerging principles that redefine the meaning of the word
The Creating Health Collaborative was formed to understand why, despite their potential, broader definitions of health remain only a fringe of health innovation. In today’s post, I am sharing their...
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Transforming disadvantaged communities
It’s pretty well understood that people from disadvantaged communities have more important things to worry about than their health. However, one general practitioner (primary care physician) in the...
View ArticleSurfacing Stories To Change Culture
It’s our lifestyles that are the problem. Our habits are making us sick. Our cultural norms are fuelling the rise in chronic conditions. The solution is simple: we have to change our culture. We’ve all...
View ArticleRe-Aligning Revenue With Care
There is much talk of the unsustainability of today’s health care systems and yet often this dialogue assumes the system is of primary importance – rather than the people the system was created to...
View ArticleA New Series On Creating Health
Yesterday saw the launch of a new series in Stanford Social Innovation Review called ‘Communities Creating Health‘. It was commissioned by the Creating Health Collaborative and was inspired by a recent...
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To improve medical care, understand patients’ perspective
I was in the Netherlands last week and met a small group of people trying to think courageously about the future of health. It was invigorating to see such bravery, often in the face of resistance from...
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Finding Family Well-Being In Texas
As more and more people echo that it’s going to take more than health care to care for our health, a few brave organisations are exploring what the other thing might be. One such organisations is...
View ArticleThe Time And Money To Find Health
Finding new business models takes time. And time is money. How much time and money might we need to turn health into a sustainable business that might offset the growth of the sickness industry that we...
View Article‘Agency': A London Charity Explores The Evidence
In a departure from my usual interview format, today I am sharing a conversation with Ollie Smith, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity. The Charity describes itself as...
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