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    Nava,

    My online "book" undergoes a revision about every 6 months as it adds contributions from within the humanitarian and scientific realms of knowledge, regarding healthcare reform.  The "book" can easily be found at    https://nationalhealthusa.net ;  My current attention is to complete a full definition of  HEALTH  especially a means to account for the effects occurring from our nation's loss of SOCIAL COHESION  in the last 50 years.   The underlying impetus is to compile a "unified epistemology" for the fundamental concepts applicable to healthcare reform.  For instance, what is it that occurs within a community that drives the intractable character of its pockets of poverty?  I suspect that two factors interact.  One is the resilieny of its safety net, especially for disasters.  And the other is each community's capability for solving evolving deficiencies within its safety net, its ability to improve its neighborhood housing dimensions, and its ability to assure equitably available and accessible Primary Healthcare for each resident.

    So maybe, Social Cohesion represents

    . a broadly shared belief among a nation's citizens

    . that the citizens of each other's community are Trustworthy and

    . that each of these communities maintains

    . their own Suvival Commons  (aka enhanced safety net) with sufficient Social Capital

    . for achieving their community's equitable contribution

    . to the norms of Trust experienced throughout their nation's communities.

     

    The life-long career of Robert Putnam underlies the basis for this rather global definition.   Obviously, solving poverty is a nationally guided and locally implemented, generational issue.

     

    Paul

          

  • Hello Paul,

    Welcome to NIC’s Collaboration Hub! Thank you for joining the Social Determinants of Health group. I look forward to your participation and encourage you to post on the group (start discussions, respond to discussions and questions, post content: papers, blogs, videos etc.) Feel free to post your expectations as a member of NIC. What are you working on that is relevant to this particular group? What interests you the most? We would love to hear about the book you are working on and your past work!

    Sincerely,

    Navah Stein Social Determinants of Health Group Moderator, Associate Consultant SOCI

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