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And this was somebody who had incredible potential to spread aspects of our message, whether it be with regards to wildlife conservation or
health
prevention.
Again, whether we're talking
health
policy, education, environment, energy, litigation, mergers, all of these are complicated problems that are predictable, that this sort of technology can be applied to.
This single story reflects a fundamental weakness in our approach to improving
health
behavior.
The only way we're going to make substantial improvements in
health
and
health
care is to make substantial improvements in the behavior of
health
and
health
care.
We need to look for the equivalent behavioral reflexes and hitch our
health
care wagon to those.
And the same thing works in
health
care.
Until, someone installed a little piece of software in the electronic
health
record that defaulted the prescriptions to generic medications instead of the brand-name drugs.
Financial incentives can help, but we shouldn't expect money in
health
care to do all of the heavy lifting.
Instead, perhaps the most powerful influencers of
health
behavior are our social interactions.
Social engagement works in
health
care, and it works in two directions.
And again, it works in
health
care, too.
So many activities in
health
care are hidden, they're unwitnessed, but doctors are social animals, and they perform better when they see what other doctors do.
So social influence works in
health
care.
We know that we can be much more effective at improving
health
behavior if we work with the irrational parts of our nature instead of ignoring them or fighting against them.
When it comes to
health
care, understanding our irrationality is just another tool in our toolbox.
But what if your country's
health
system was fundamentally broken?
And today, I'd like to tell you how Rajasthan has transformed its public
health
system dramatically by using the citizen to trigger motivation.
In 2016, when my team was called in to start working with the public
health
system of Rajasthan, we found it in a state of crisis.
No wonder then that citizens were saying, "Hey, I don't want to go to a public
health
facility."
In India, if you wanted to see a doctor in a public
health
facility, you would go to a "PHC," or "primary
health
center."
So we created these fancy performance dashboards to help make the review meetings of the
health
department much more effective.
The public
health
system was getting back into business.
An exasperated doctor once told me, "I really want to transform the maternal
health
in my community, but I just don't have enough nurses."
This is where the head of the public
health
department, Ms. Veenu Gupta, came up with a brilliant idea.
So now, when you put these two together, the coffee shop strategy and public competition, you now had a public
health
system which was significantly more motivated to improve citizen
health.
And now that you had a more motivated
health
system, it was actually a system that was now much more ready for support.
One of the doctors had up-skilled
health
workers to tackle the problem of nurse shortages.
What happened to the performance of Rajasthan's public
health
system?
In 2016, when our work began, the government of India and the World Bank came out with a public
health
index.
Typically, public
health
transformations take a long time, even decades.
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