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first began to understand health as a social phenomenon that starts and ends outside the clinic walls.

You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care

Dr. Stuart Rothenberg and Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf of Maharishi Ayurveda,

Most doctors—most humans, really—have unwittingly inherited a colonial worldview that emphasizes individual health, disconnecting illness from its social and historical contexts and obscuring our place in the web of life that makes us who we are.

For those interested, a more comprehensive list of policy solutions and opportunities to advance an upstreamist approach can be found at healthbegins.org

“A conceptual model that includes partialists, comprehensivists, and upstreamists makes sense for the work of population health management in health care. Each of those three key functions must be performed. For this to be wieldy, though, there would also need to be coordination among those three functions. But the nature of how we currently segmen