“Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health.”
How do we get to healthy? Diet, exercise, sure, but is health also about where we live and how we live? What about how our neighbors live?
We know from the recent measles outbreak that choices our neighbors make affect us. What about the choices we make as a society? How do those choices, policies really, affect our individual health?
The debates over health care in America often start and stop at issues of diet and exercise, health insurance, access to medicine, choosing your own doctor.
But health, according to Dr. Sandro Galea, isn’t going to actually occur, for individuals or societies, if we stay focused at that level of attention and care.
Health rather should be seen as how everyone lives in their neighborhoods including the opportunities that exist in education and employment.
Dr. Sandro Galea is coming to Town Hall Seattle to The Forum, newly reopened in Town Hall. Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 7:30PM.
His book is “Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health.”
Public health thinkers, like Dr. Sandro Galea, argue that opportunity to live in a safe, stress free place, where opportunities exist for ourselves and our children are among the most powerful influences on creating a healthy society and so health individuals.
Sandro Galea is considered an innovator in epidemiology. He is Dean and Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He is the author of many scholarly articles, book chapters and books.
He is coming to Town Hall Seattle to The Forum, newly reopened in Town Hall. Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 7:30PM.
His book is “Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health.”