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Still, today, armed with that knowledge that ordinary people in the community can be trained and, with sufficient supervision and support, can deliver a range of
health
care interventions effectively, perhaps that promise is within reach now.
Indeed, to implement the slogan of
Health
for All, we will need to involve all in that particular journey, and in the case of mental health, in particular we would need to involve people who are affected by mental illness and their caregivers.
It was a center of entertainment, of energy production, of work, a center of
health
care.
It's our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.
Let me give you some examples from a couple of areas which I think we all care about:
health
and education.
There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our
health
care.
In fact, 65 decibels is the very level at which this big survey of all the evidence on noise and
health
found that, that is the threshold for the danger of myocardial infarction.
It's about designing, not appearance, but experience, so that we have spaces that sound as good as they look, that are fit for purpose, that improve our quality of life, our
health
and well being, our social behavior and our productivity.
The Congo consistently scores dreadfully in global
health
and poverty rankings.
But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help, I really believe that all people deserve access to
health
at prices they can afford.
It essentially raises charitable funds from individuals, foundations and corporations, and then we turn around and we invest equity and loans in both for-profit and nonprofit entities that deliver affordable health, housing, energy, clean water to low income people in South Asia and Africa, so that they can make their own choices.
Both of them live at the confluence of public
health
and enterprise, and both of them, because they're manufacturers, create jobs directly, and create incomes indirectly, because they're in the malaria sector, and Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year because of malaria.
It's another one that lives at the confluence of
health
and enterprise.
And so, from an enterprise perspective for Africa, and from a public
health
perspective, these are real successes.
But because she had the opportunity of the marketplace, and she lived in a society that provided the safety of having access to affordable
health
and education, her children and their children were able to live lives of real purpose and follow real dreams.
Now if we just flick back and forth between those two, you can see what a staggering difference there was between reality and what doctors, patients, commissioners of
health
services, and academics were able to see in the peer-reviewed academic literature.
Nathaniel's story has become a beacon for homelessness and mental
health
advocacy throughout the United States, as told through the book and the movie "The Soloist," but I became his friend, and I became his violin teacher, and I told him that wherever he had his violin, and wherever I had mine, I would play a lesson with him.
And more importantly, we're able to gather information about our choices, because it turns out that what we think of as our
health
is more like the interaction of our bodies, our genomes, our choices and our environment.
So my grandfather's genes go all the way through to him, and my choices are going to affect his
health.
So the good news is that some things have changed, and the most important thing that's changed is that we can now measure ourselves in ways that used to be the dominion of the
health
system.
We can reach back and grab that dust, and we can learn a lot about
health
from it, so if our choices are part of our health, what we eat is a really important aspect of our
health.
So you can do something very simple and basic and take a picture of your food, and if enough people do that, we can learn a lot about how our food affects our
health.
Okay? (Laughter) And it seems like a trivial result, but this is the sort of research that used to take the
health
system years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to accomplish.
And those correlations that they can tease out, they're not necessarily causal agents, but math, in this day and age, is like a giant set of power tools that we're leaving on the floor, not plugged in in health, while we use hand saws.
If we have a lot of shared genotypes, and a lot of shared outcomes, and a lot of shared lifestyle choices, and a lot of shared environmental information, we can start to tease out the correlations between subtle variations in people, the choices they make and the
health
that they create as a result of those choices, and there's open-source infrastructure to do all of this.
It's very much the design principles of a commons that we're trying to bring to
health
data.
And we're not supposed to be unreasonable in health, and so I hate this word "patient."
I don't like being patient when systems are broken, and
health
care is broken.
I'm not talking about the politics of
health
care, I'm talking about the way we scientifically approach
health
care.
So you know more about me and my
health
than I know about you.
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