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Healthcare and revolution – Who’s afraid of Cuba?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by NateOsit — 2 Comments ↓

I’m tired of hearing about the next new revolutionary drug that’s going to change the face of medicine. I’m tired of hearing about how the iPad is going to revolutionize healthcare. I’m tired of hearing about the social media revolution…

Tagged with: Cuba, healthcare, healthcare revolution, occupy, occupy healthcare, public health, revolution, Social Determinants of Health, social movements, universal healthcare
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, public health, Social Determinents of Health

Occupy Thanksgiving for Occupy Healthcare

Posted on November 24, 2011 by NateOsit — No Comments ↓

As you visit family and friends this Thanksgiving day, the occupy healthcare team wants to offer up a challenge. While sitting around the dinner table, consider bringing up issues of healthcare that include health justice and health equity. These are…

Tagged with: healthcare, occupy, public health, social determinants, Social Determinants of Health, thanksgiving
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, public health, Social Determinents of Health

A better healthcare system for humanity

Posted on November 8, 2011 by NateOsit — 7 Comments ↓

For one to be a revolutionary doctor or to be a revolutionary at all, there must first be a revolution. Isolated individual endeavour, for all its purity of ideals, is of no use, and the desire to sacrifice an entire…

Tagged with: broken, community, global health, health disparities, health equity, healthcare, occupy, occupy healthcare, revolution, Social Determinants of Health
Posted in Community, Health behavior, healthcare, Innovation, public health

The fatal flaw in American healthcare

Posted on November 3, 2011 by NateOsit — 15 Comments ↓

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” In discussions of the healthcare system we have in the U.S., much of the talk is centered around the idea that the system is broken. The…