Technology gives us the ability to change system behavior and align relationships around real value. We can tune human networks to create real opportunity for everyone, and in the process create a sustainable future.
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If a farmer does not improve the soil in which his or her crops grow, the harvest gets smaller every year. Rather than our enormously expensive, competitive, hierarchical model of healthcare, we must use the science of systems and the power of networks to collaboratively approach health – creating an ecosystem that creates real value, not just money.
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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.
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At 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core of our social problems is the fact that our fragmented approach to the health and well-being of our communities is out of date.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.
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Communities 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.
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The 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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