Healthcare is ideally positioned to catalyze the critical reorganization necessary to improve social determinants of health to help both healthcare and education succeed. But improvement will require systems and thinking that are focused on the whole more than the parts being changed.
Read MoreAt the core of our social problems is the fact that our fragmented approach to the health and well-being of our communities is out of date. A more systematic approach is needed, one grounded in current system science and better aligned to how the complex adaptive network we call community works.
Read MoreIn March, Curandi presented at the 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza, a gathering for meaningful collaboration and face-to-face conversations about the big ideas, big opportunities and policy hurdles for improving health and health care.
Read MoreCommunities are complex, and their problems represent multiple system failures. To improve community health, we should be taking an equally multifaceted approach to interventions – the second of four principles that together form a better system for addressing social determinants of health.
Read MoreIncentives exist to align our efforts. To measurably improve community health, we must align our efforts to shared purpose - the first of four principles that together form a better approach to social determinants of health.
Read MoreThe path to creating a better system for studying and materially improving the health of communities begins with a better understanding of the two things that set it apart: perspective and dynamics.
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