Featured Videos, Health More than Healthcare
Risk, Chance and Choice, with Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter (22.1 min)
Michael Blastland, author & journalist, and David Spiegelhalter, Professor at the University of Cambridge, reveal the real truth about the statistics of acute and chronic risks and explain how the newspapers tend to misinterpret these risks. They offer an entertaining and illuminating guide to everyday decision-making.
Introduction to Upstream, Institute for a Healthy Society (1.2 min)
Upstream is a movement to create a healthy society through evidence-based, people-centred ideas. Thinking upstream means making smarter decisions about what kind of country we want.
SOCAP StoryBooth on Health, with Dr. Doug Jutte (1.4 min)
SOCAP StoryBooth with Dr. Doug Jutte MD, MPH, on health is more than healthcare. Dr. Jutte is a professor and population health researcher at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
The Doctor is Out: Health Happens Where You Live, Learn, Learn, Work and Play, with Dr. Doug Jutte (18.3 min)
Dr. Doug Jutte MD, MPH, speaks at SOCAP13 about the social determinants of health and the idea that health is more than healthcare. He believes the real causes of illness are the conditions in which you are born, grow, work, …
If You Want to Help Me, Prescribe Me Money: Gary Bloch at TEDxStouffville, with Gary Bloch (18.1 min)
Income has an impact on health at least as large as smoking or diabetes. Yet most doctors do not see income as a medical issue. Gary Bloch will connect evidence to action, and propose a radical rethinking of the role of doctors in addressing income and other social issues that affect their patients’ health.
Food Insecurity is a Lack of Humanity, with Lynn McIntyre (11 min)
Lynn McIntyre speaks eloquently about how inadequate access to food due to financial constraints comes from a lack of appropriate policy and action. For more information about Lynn.
Let’s start a conversation (5.2 mins)
A new way to discuss the social determinants of health. From the Huron County Health Unit.
Health studies before wind turbines, with Dr. Robert McMurtry (12.1 min)
Dr. Robert McMurtry MD FRCSC FACS speaks to a large gathering in Clinton, Ontario about the health issues that are arising in Ontario homes that are close to wind turbine developments.
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