Wellthcare
February 2013 – October 2014
An exploration to better understand how communities define their health and whether it was possible to create it
This work began with the insight that the demand for care in high-income countries had outstripped supply and would continue to do so – despite the many innovations I’d seen as the Physician Editor of TEDMED. I believed that at the heart of the challenge was the inability to see health as more than just the ‘absence of disease’. I sought to find new definitions of health, as well as practitioners trying to work with them. This project was the foundation of all of my other projects.
Report
The Wellthcare Manifesto
Pritpal S Tamber
March 2016
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