Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: World Health Day

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Tuesday, April 07, 2020

World Health Day

"The pandemic is a portal.
We can walk through it with our dead ideas.
Or we can walk lightly,
ready to imagine another world."
Arundhati Roy


The pandemic represents five portals:

SOCIAL
SPIRITUAL
POLITICAL
INTRA- INTERPERSONAL
SCIENCES

On our respective journeys, 
we can reflect and think critically 
using the disciplinary-bridges provided to us:

socio-political
psycho-social
physico-political
psycho-political
socio-economic
socio-technical
bio-ethical
...

and through 
love, teamwork and perseverance
we see that ...

"Discipline is the bridge between
goals and accomplishment."
Jim Rohn.


individual
|
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group - population






https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1247547729879891968?s=20

https://www.who.int/publications-detail/nursing-report-2020
State of the World’s Nursing Report - 2020

Roy, A. (2020) The pandemic portal, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, 4-5 April, pp.1-2.