Health 3.0 Blog

Health Bites (Fall Pippin Edition)

Health

• The role of perceived risk in governing group dynamics… (via ArsTechnica)
• More evidence that sitting is killing us, regardless of our activity level… (via Stone Hearth)
• Our health reflects the same stagnating trend as the overall economy… (via Stone Hearth)

Design

• Using graffiti to combat drug use… (via PSFK)
• Soviet military statues turned into super heroes in Bulgaria… (via News.com.au)

Innovation

• Infographic illustrating everything that happens on the web in 1 minute… (via Adverblog)
• Use simple messages to engage people in behavior change… (via Stone Hearth)
• Small cities drive innovation and knowledge… (via Wired)
• Kickstarter vs. the government when it comes to funding the arts… (via Mashable)

Happiness & Wellbeing

• The mental health version of the new MyPlate dietary guidelines… (via Psychology Today)
• Who are the happiest Americans? Those over 65… (via Stone Hearth)
• Bikes make life better… 

Health Bites (Detroit Red Edition)

This week’s collection of links is curated by WHF intern, Laura Miller…

Health & Wellness

• Can sharing improve your health? The social structures that influence your health… (via IFTF)
• What one week’s worth of food looks like in different countries… (via Homeless Nation)
• State’s are finally coming up with plans to combat the childhood obesity epidemic. Take a look at Colorado’s LiveWell campaign and Washington’s own Healthiest State in the Nation campaign.
• More bike commuting troubles as cyclist gets ticketed for riding outside the designated lanes… (via Nau)

Design

• Rebel with a cause. DIY pie chart stenciling… (via NotCot)
• Indulge in a whimsical summer playground at Rainbow City… (via Cool Hunting)
• Five all natural twists on the classic peanut butter cup… (via Cool Hunting)

Innovation

• A roguish approach to business - keep it local… (via Thrive)
• Food dessert solution… (via GOOD)
• Technology helping a student walk across stage to accept his diploma… (via CNN)

jayparkinsonmd:

Lego Anatomy Skeleton: 3/4, Torso (by Choking Hazards)

"They point toward a new way that we’ll understand health and well-being in the coming decade—where participatory networks with lot of free exchange come to be seen as key markers of well-being."

What Social Structures Improve Well-Being? | Institute For The Future

"While we know there are no overnight answers, one way we can all take part is by sharing the newest ideas. For as long as humans have been imagining ways to make things better, innovation has been one of the key forces driving change. Today, the hallmarks of innovative thinking—creativity, scientific discovery, collaboration, technology—are helping humans tackle the enormous challenges [of the present]"

The Time for Innovation is Now - Environment - GOOD

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A reporter from AdWeek asked me last week whether I thought “cause marketing” was a fad. I do. It’s a fad in the way that superficial attraction is fleeting. If it’s core, if it’s fundamental, then it’s here to stay. Many companies know this and are working to align strategy with impact, profit with purpose. It’s a new era in business, and we see it across all industries and business sizes. But as more and more companies move into this space, they will need to deliver on not just “buy one, give one” but on an awesome consumer value proposition as well…

Because doing well by doing good is not a fad.

A New TOMS Product: The Most Important Launch of the Year? - Business - GOOD

"The three questions that should be at the heart of every conversation about fixing our schools: 1) How do people learn best?; 2) What are the skills of a free people?; and 3) What in the end does it mean to be free? Figuring out how people learn best makes sense, but his emphasis on freedom is something we don’t often see in education conversations—yet it’s smart on multiple levels. We need to have the freedom to experiment creatively to get kids learning, and in a democracy we need a population that’s able to do more than just to bubble in the response on a Scantron form. Indeed, when so much of current schooling is so standardized (and becoming moreso) putting freedom into the education conversation is actually revolutionary."

via Sam Chaltain: The Three Most Important Questions in Education - Education - GOOD

Health Bites (Cripps Pink Edition)

Light on articles this week, with a focus on art & design…

Design

• A TED graduation speech to architecture students… (via TEDChris)
• It’s not Mario Kart, but we’ll soon have cars made from mushrooms… (via Grist)
• Designing new plates to replace the food pyramid… (via GOOD)

Health

• A haunting slideshow of interpretive self-portraits based on the effects of various drugs… (via GOOD)
• Creative and funny healthcare advertising… (via JerrryKopec)
• Bike sharing at scale in China… (via GOOD)
• 4 stages to teaching yourself to cook and how it can change your life… (via LifeHacker)

Innovation

• Just because something is disruptive does not mean technology was behind it… (via Storyful)
• How do artists find their authentic creative selves when everything is for sale?… (via Malcolm McLaren)

Health Bites (Red Delicious Edition)

Deliciously sweet this week…

Design

• Using Lean to design user interfaces - with a great set of aphorisms/principles halfway through… (via Lessons Learned)
• An urban renewal project focused on optimizing health at a systems level and increasing residents’ quality of life… (via Experientia)
• A unique game where the goal is not to play… (via Pulse+Signal)

Innovation

• “Failing forward” is not a luxury we all have, but if you do - take advantage of it… (via Seth Godin)
• Think outside yourself to unleash creativity… (via PsyBlog)
• The illusion of social networks… (via TechCrunch)

Health & Wellness

• Four examples of how data can change behavior, but it’s not a certainty… (via Steph Habif)
• Fixing healthcare… (via Joe Flower)
• Taking the fun out of doctoring… (via Dr. Wes)
• Racial disparities persist in healthcare (and are a significant barrier to WA becoming the Healthiest State in the Nation)… (via Pizzazz)

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I really like the ideas put forth by the Washington Health Foundation around “people-centered health.” Among other things, they take a bit of a rebellious stance and promote the radical idea that people must be empowered to be “partners in their health,” and that the current medical system (and a lot of supposedly “patient-centered design”) discourages individuals from solving their own problems by treating them as “patients.” They propose a number of very interesting design principles that are meant to help create services that actually put people in control of their own health care.

I’d like to add something to those tenets: “Good person-centered health design creates an emotional tone that is conducive to self-care.” What I mean by that is in order to effectively reduce the impact of chronic disease, we have to encourage people to establish sustainable, healthy ways of life for themselves, rather than being “treated” by nurses and doctors. Emotional tone is key because this is how exercise and healthy food become sources of joy, rather than unpleasant chores, and a treatment regimen becomes the enabler of good living, rather than yet another indignity. To create this tone, we must bring the same level of design craft and attention to home-health-care experiences as we do to the best housewares and consumer electronics.

via Dave Cronin at CoDesign

Health Bites (Gala Edition)

Short and sweet this week…

Innovation

• The world’s best urban environments for driving innovation… (via The Atlantic)
• What patents can teach us about the story of innovation… (via The Decision Tree)

Design

• Grappling with new terms to describe “healthy” building designs… (via Center for Health Design)
• Celebrating LEGO’s continued ability to re-invent & disrupt itself… (via The Decision Tree)
• Artists celebrate National Bike Week with creative posters… (via MyModernMet)

Happiness

• Intent, question, influence are the keys to effective communication… (via the Health Maven)
• Joyful sidewalks, joyful cities… (via Aesthetics of Joy)

Health & Well-being

• Self-control in early childhood predicts later life health & well-being… (via Discovery)

"What does that look like? How do you hurt your prospects for success, health and a good life by default? This happens when you go along with norms or customs that reinforce mediocrity or worse. It happens when you associate, longer than you must, with backward, negative or dull people."

Reason, Rationality and Science: The Foundation for REAL Wellness | Trusted.MD Network

ourownsystem:

Robert Krulwich (of Radiolab fame) gave an amazing commencement speech earlier this month. Liberally excerpted here, go read it there. Awesome:

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in…

(Source: ourownsystem)

"During those conversations, some principles for working with Native communities were identified. They seem to make sense for all philanthropic efforts:
Engage in and encourage long-term relationships that are contextual to the community of focus.
Trust that the community knows what is best for its current and future vitality, and respect their right to act as they choose. (Always respect the right of each partner to act as they choose.)
Leadership is a primary need for progress, should be authentic within the community, and sustained by the community.
The nature and form of our relationships will promote truth and transparency as we learn and grow together.
Be committed to collaboratively realizing our full potential while demonstrating that each person has a place in community vitality; we are in relationship with each other and the world around us.
No participant is without wealth that can be shared with others, so our collective wealth will resolve our collective poverty.
We are honored by being able to give to one another, and our gifts reflect our relationships.
A vision is a journey that has not happened, which will be different than conceived, is better experienced in relationship with others, and requires the community to achieve success."

Philanthropy Northwest Blog » Blog Archive » Philanthropy: A High-Risk Endeavor?

Health Bites (Honeycrisp Edition)

Innovative approaches to solving problems is one of the main features in this week’s Health Bites…

Innovation

• Wise Crowds, Wicked Questions, and Troika are just a few of the Liberating Structures that invite and unleash everyone… (via Plexus Institute)
• How should we judge innovation in China relative to other nations?… (via the Economist) 
• According to the military, solar and health care technologies are the key to remaining a global power… (via FastCo)
• The future of work is play… (via PSFK)

Happiness

• Get stuff done by not being mean to yourself… (via Susan Piver)
• Who gets to define what happiness really is? Is science up to the task?… (via Oliver Burkeman)
• Does happiness lead to better health? Does it matter if happiness is itself a worthy aspiration?… (via Don Ardell)

Health & Wellness

• More evidence that sitting & other sedentary behaviors are killing us… (via LifeHacker - *bonus* includes a great infographic)
• 9 helpful readings on behavior change… (via Age of Change)
• Do bribes and other small short-term incentives lead to lasting behavior change?… (via GOOD)
• The quarter-life crisis = a search for meaning & identity… (via PSFK)
• How to make health fun? Make it a game… (via Technology Review)

Design

• The link between creativity & pathology… (via Plexus Institute)
• The Innovation Learning Network and game design… (via frog Design)
• The connection between urban design and health & wellness… (via Jay Parkinson)
• Perhaps the next generation of health care designers will arrive sooner than we thought… (Center for Health Design)