An overview of the extraordinary work of Alex Briscoe, Director of Alameda County’s Health Care Services Agency

A re-posting of Charles Leadbeater's chapter in The Alpine Review that tomorrow's health systems require us to learn from the developing world

To bring together the ideas that we've discussed in Wellthcare into a brief, accessible format

How number-crunching at a population level cannot create an understanding of people's lives, and how Wellthcare is fundamentally different

To understand health in ways other than the deficit model, to find real-world examples of health creation, and to hear the perspective of funders in this space

An attempt to understand what 'health creation' is and how it might come about

An interview of Victor Wang, CEO of GeriJoy, the app that seeks to leverage the global supply of compassion

Some thoughts (and scribbles) on the health debate in 2013

A report on the recent discussion amongst the Wellthcare Explorers on the importance of context and assets

A look at some of the health projects I came across in the US that consider the importance of community

An interview of Joe Dickinson of Jersey Post, the postal system that checks in on its elderly community as part of its rounds

I’m writing this Log post from Las Vegas, USA, where I have come to experience the Downtown Project, an attempt to transform the downtown area into the most community-focused large …

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