Thank you for the note and for referring me to the series—I had not seen it. Yes I do think that health unites a substantial amount of our collective aspirations. But it is health to the end of living, not the other way around.
Re: community health. Public health has a responsibility to look at data to support and influence decision making, and we do need to be able to 'drop it all' and sit 'in another persons chair'. Much decision making involves emotion not just data, and data changes; ref: check EBHS published systematic reviews to see how many say "more research is needed". Deep canvassing is a methodology used often in political arenas, and designed to 'change hearts, minds, and votes". It asks canvassers to really hear the other person and connect person to person. We might change our minds :)
Dean Galea, I so admire your work. Your book "Well" helped organize my growing hunch that my work on death penalty abolition was deeply connected to my interest in health - it's really all about health. This post is resonant with my recent Substack post with a little different focus, which also pointed to The Lancet's recent podcast "Spotlight on Mental Health: Trauma, Recovery, and Justice." We can't use coercion to increase health, because coercion traumatizes - it is at the heart of abusive systems.
Thank you for the note and for referring me to the series—I had not seen it. Yes I do think that health unites a substantial amount of our collective aspirations. But it is health to the end of living, not the other way around.
Re: community health. Public health has a responsibility to look at data to support and influence decision making, and we do need to be able to 'drop it all' and sit 'in another persons chair'. Much decision making involves emotion not just data, and data changes; ref: check EBHS published systematic reviews to see how many say "more research is needed". Deep canvassing is a methodology used often in political arenas, and designed to 'change hearts, minds, and votes". It asks canvassers to really hear the other person and connect person to person. We might change our minds :)
Dean Galea, I so admire your work. Your book "Well" helped organize my growing hunch that my work on death penalty abolition was deeply connected to my interest in health - it's really all about health. This post is resonant with my recent Substack post with a little different focus, which also pointed to The Lancet's recent podcast "Spotlight on Mental Health: Trauma, Recovery, and Justice." We can't use coercion to increase health, because coercion traumatizes - it is at the heart of abusive systems.
intersectionalhealth.substack.com/p/turning-down-the-volume-on-trauma?
thelancet.com/lancet-200/mental-health?