Healthcare is correct to care about social issues. In June 2022, Deloitte calculated that social factors cost around $320B annually, which could eclipse $1T by 2040. Yet just because this is a problem for healthcare, it doesn't mean this is a healthcare problem. Instead, it is a problem for everyone.
Read MoreOur most urgent goal is to replace the justifiable anger permeating society with genuine opportunity for growth and success for the middle and lower economic classes. Authentic opportunity will restore hope and trust in each other and the communities we live within. Governmental policy supporting system-science-based local initiatives will make it easier to restore the American Dream and point the way to solving the rampant, systemic problems tearing the nation apart.
Read MoreHealthcare 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core of our social problems is the fact that our fragmented approach to the health and well-being of our communities is out of date.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 MoreAll of us have a personal narrative grown from firsthand experience that filters and shapes our understanding and perspective. It can also blind us to growing problems and innovative solutions. Being able to see the whole is job one for understanding how our healthcare system works and for being able to make it work better.
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