Community empowerment
Last week, there was post on this website discussing how to create a community contagion. The point of the contagion…
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Storytelling in healthcare
How important is storytelling in healthcare? With any attempts to make change, there is a story helping “ignite the flame“….
Healthcare is a moral issue
Have you considered if healthcare is a moral issue? With recent arguments made in the Supreme Court about the constitutionality…
Building a healthier community: An Omaha case study
Building healthy communities is one element of a transformed healthcare system in the U.S. Among other things, healthy communities help…
Why social determinants of health matter, and how to take action
(Cross-posted in a slightly modified form at the Life in Underserved Medicine blog) Recently, my friend Carmen Gonzalez wrote a…
Land of the free, home of healthcare inequality
Every report of late confirms what we already know about health disparities: they are growing worse. A cursory view of…
What does it mean to be a healthcare revolutionary?
Recently at the Planetree Annual Conference Planetree’s President Susan Frampton defined attendees as revolutionaries. It was a gathering of more…