Community & Health
A regular newsletter looking at the evidence requiring health care to rethink how it works with communities, including commentary on current initiatives – available online and emailed to subscribers
Building on my writing and research to date, I explore how health care in high-income countries can better appreciate how people and communities define their health, and respond accordingly. It includes reviewing often-overlooked evidence, sharing the work of courageous community-oriented practitioners, and commenting on work increasingly being described as ‘community health’ or the ‘social determinants of health’.
Newsletters
Not Sentimentalizing Community
By Pritpal S Tamber |
How understanding the flow of care made possible by social cohesion is fundamental – and may need more ruthless employers
Exploring the Nuance Under the Buzz
By Pritpal S Tamber |
How looking underneath buzz terms like ‘deaths of despair’ and ‘asset-based community development’ is key to finding solutions
On Power, Co-Production and Feeling Overwhelmed
By Pritpal S Tamber |
How co-production, self-management and health promotion all have the potential to increase social inequity, and what you can do about it
Why Provision is not Enough
By Pritpal S Tamber |
How atomising problems and providing programmes ignores what really matters in enabling people to turn their lives around
Sectors, Partnering and Place
By Pritpal S Tamber |
How cross-sector partnering demands thinking about place, and why thinking about place means thinking about people’s choices and freedom
On Absurdity, Collusion and Silence
By Pritpal S Tamber |
How our failure to effectively respond to non-communicable diseases may be because our science needs updating – if only our politics would get out of the way