Health – An Agenda for Action Series
Health
This holistic vision of health should inform the redesign of our healthcare systems and public health policies. A new paradigm for health is needed from one based on sickness, whose increasing costs for an aging population appears unsustainable, to one centered on prevention and well-being, in which societies support individuals is taking care of themselves.
Mental health is a major determinant of people’s well-being and is closely associated with the definition of human flourishing. It also significantly influences our physical health, including indirectly through our lifestyles, the main cause of chronic diseases, which now represent 75 percent of global healthcare expenses. Despite the fact that mental health is a major public health problem with huge costs for societies and that effective treatments exist, access to treatments is very low: in rich countries, less than a third of people who suffer from mental illness receive treatment and care. Mental health should be made a public health priority as part of a new integrative medicine paradigm that considers all the dimensions (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) and the determinants (social, environmental) of health, and integrates conventional medicine with complementary therapies.
Politics of Being : An agenda for action series
The Politics of Being is a deep but not ethereal vision. It offers concrete actionable policy recommendations in many sectors, almost exclusively based on existing examples. We can start implementing it today if we choose.
In this series, we will share every week some inspiration and thoughts about what implementing the Politics of Being would entail in nine different sectors. This agenda for action with examples and references is fully developed in the book : https://politicsofbeing.com/get-the-book/
Here you can discover what concrete policies and actions can support flourishing organizations and a regenerative relationship to health.
Stay tuned and enjoy !
Read the agenda for action series for each sector here:
