Share your thoughts: Health Research & Community/Public Engagement

Dear HIFA Community,

As part of a multi-country scoping study commissioned by Wellcome Trust 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellcome-trust/

Pivot Collective: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivotcollective/

- is conducting a rapid survey to better understand community/public engagement and knowledge exchange in health research.

*The Ask:* Provide your insights, thoughts and perspectives - click the survey here: 

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This should take 15-30 minutes to complete, and data will be anonymised.

Please complete the survey by Wednesday 17 May 2023.

Thank you!

As background, this survey is part of a larger project that aims to identify more effective routes for communities to be involved in research, with *an ultimate goal of understanding how communities can play a genuinely meaningful, inclusive, and reciprocal role in the research ecosystem.

The project is led by Pivot Collective: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivotcollective/ in partnership with - 

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If you'd like to learn more, please don't hesitate to reach out.
We are grateful for your time and insights, and would love to talk.

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Claire B. Cole

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HIFA profile: Claire Cole is Co-Director and Senior Technical Advisor at Pivot Collective USA. Research interests: Participatory and applied research; Sexual and reproductive health and rights; Adolescent health and development; HIV and AIDS; Marginalized and underserved populations; Adaptive management and adaptive implementation; Responsive health systems; Resilience; Implementation science.

My source:
You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community -
HIFA - Healthcare Information For All.

The politics of 'real' power: Mitochondria

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	The Song of the Cell
	The Climate Book

See also:

Book: The Vital Question

My source: Whipple, T. Where all life begins - the magic of cells, Saturday Review, The Times, November 5, 2022, p.16-17. Blakely, R. The Greta Thurnberg guide to saving the planet (same pages).

"Mother"

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"Mother!"	Mother Earth Mother Nature
MOTHER	Mother Country

"MOTHER" - model theory emergency - COP26

Marsel Van Oosten, NOW YOU SEE THEM... The Sunday Times Magazine, May 30, 2021. pp.34-39.

Just because they have 'eco' in common ...

... don't assume you can monitise*

 the world's ecosystems 

by their roots and branches ... 

 

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	E ECOSYSTEMS
	O   N   O   M    I   C   S

*despite the ongoing 'project' ...?

Spaceship Earth

Ack. Azuma Makoto

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BIOSPHERE: ALL LIFE

Azuma Makoto

Photo source:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/374643262755074853/

My source:
Quick, H. Forces of NATURE, FT Weekend, September 8 2020.

 

Heritage Management Process: Before & After

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	Rio Tinto was given permission to blast Juukan Gorge 1 and 2 under Section 18 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act, despite calls to protect the two Aboriginal rock shelters. (Image: Puutu Kunti Kurrama And Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation)
Juukan Gorge in the Hammersley Ranges in Western Pilbara

My source:

Smyth, J. (2020) Rio Tinto criticised by former adviser over heritage site blast, FTWeekend, 20-21 June, p.13.

See also:
The Guardian,
Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine, The Guardian.

Image source:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/aboriginal-rock-shelter-0013771

Eco-Visionaries: Confronting a planet in a state of emergency c/o Royal Academy

Discover how architects, artists and designers are responding today to some of the most urgent ecological issues of our times.

"From climate change to species extinction and resource depletion, the damaging effects of modern life are more tangible than ever. Eco-Visionaries examines humankind’s impact on the planet and presents innovative approaches that reframe our relationship with nature. Through film, installation, architectural models and photography, the works in this exhibition interrogate how architecture, art and design are reacting to a rapidly changing world, beyond mainstream notions of sustainability.

In the 1950s, scientists started raising serious concerns about the damaging effects of modern life on the environment. Since then, architects, designers and artists have joined the urgent effort to draw attention to the planet’s fragile and endangered ecosystem."

Royal Academy - source and continued ...

Planning to visit the exhibition and related event in February.


Previously posted:
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Blog Action Day: Imagine a generation taking nothing for granted from the start

Eco-Visionaries: Royal Academy of Arts

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Confronting a planet in a state of emergency	Eco-Visionaries
Eco-Visionaries	Confronting a planet in a state of emergency

My source:
Royal Academy of Arts  Email - Call for Papers
Symposium in February, abstract not accepted but plan to attend.

Time to Define: Person-Centred Care...

In a global, planetary context self-care also takes on new meanings and urgency:

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Greta Thunberg

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LOVE - CARING --------------------------------- biospherics
responsibility ------------------------------ evidence

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Global Consciousness
Gaia's Friends*

personal growth self-motivation, anger, sense of betrayal, trust in political motivation	PLANETARY HEALTH cloud air water soil land glacier weather: temperatures, rains, winds, sea level ...
Communities Societies People's Bound to 'consume': but a collective  aspiration to be  more than: CONSUMERS	economic growth ... ? Climate activist Greta Thunberg photographed on the shore in Lisbon, Portugal December 4, 2019 Photograph by Evgenia Arbugaeva for TIME

*Gaia does not have 'friends' of course.
Get this wrong - 'We' are gone.

G.D.P. Capitalism pp. A.M. Holistic ...

One pivot-point or several?

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"A more holistic approach to 'growth' needs to evolve ... Growth mania -	Demographics: Population Growth  GDP per capita - new measures? "nominal GDP growth, supported by population growth,
... looking to capture societal and environmental benefits and costs". "borrowing from the future while destroying the environment". socio -	[and profit] growth" Gross Domestic Product [GDP] Sustainability - economics

This week there has been a major focus on Self  Care Week.

Lars Münter brought to my attention the need for an 'Economy of Wellbeing'. 

Jenkins's item in the FT refers to Milton Friedman, shareholders and stakeholders. The latter seems to be an over-used term in healthcare and health services, but there is learning in comparing and contrasting the two.

The climate emergency will change capitalism. 

Perhaps, what we need is not just an:

'Economy of Wellbeing'

as 'Economies of Wellbeing'

The presiding orientation of which must be circular.

See also:
The Friedman Doctrine, or Shareholder Theory; and Stakeholder Theory. 

My source:
Patrick Jenkins, Fund chiefs call for shift in capitalism, FT Weekend, 16-17 November 2019, p.4.

Self-care - Care of other (Mother Earth)

'Maze Maker' by Michael Ayrton

1965, pencil and watercolour on paper 34.9 x25.4 cm

Negotiating the Healthcare Maze

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*Tate Etc. issue 44: Autumn 2018, p.84.

Image: Christie's

*Thanks to Tate Liverpool's Cafe for art magazines for reading...

c/o @TheLancetPlanet - Paper: Residential greenness and prevalence of major depressive disorders... or "All colours fictitious"

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An analysis on 94879 participants recruited across ten UK Biobank centres shows the protection effect of greenness on depression. New in the Lancet Planetary Health @TheLancetPlanet read it now https://t.co/lziiD7YeWG — The Lancet Planetary Health (@TheLancetPlanet) April 6, 2018

Disclaimer:

Any significance that might be deemed between greenness as identified in Hodges' model with mental health, psychology, ecopsychology, memory, personhood, emotional, beliefs, mood ... and other colours* as portrayed is, of course, entirely coincidental.

 *colours to include black & white

Search of 'mental health' posts:
https://hodges-model.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/mental%20health

Modelling Scale: Self, Families, Communities, Organisations - a Planet's Health...

Dear HIFA colleagues,

I would like to wish you all a happy new year and to share with you a powerful quote on the front cover of the current print issue of The Lancet:

"Achieving planetary health will require a renaissance in how we define our place in the world. A new narrative will reject the one streaming into our homes — that happiness comes from relentlessly acquiring more things — and embrace what we know: that what truly makes us happy is time spent with those we love, connection to place and community, feeling connected to something greater than ourselves, taking care of each other."

The quote is from a lecture by Samuel Myers, Planetary Health Alliance at Harvard University, USA. The citation is below and the full text is freely available here:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32846-5/fulltext

CITATION: Planetary health: protecting human health on a rapidly changing planet

Dr Samuel S Myers

Volume 390, No. 10114, p2860–2868, 23 December 2017

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32846-5

Best wishes, Neil

Let's build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of healthcare information - Join HIFA: www.hifa.org

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My additions:

I am always fascinated by the need for such expansive perspectives, the need to simultaneously factor in scale; how for example, do we warn future generations of environmental hazards?

Such questions are also crucial to "how we define our place in the world"?

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	The Far Future - BBC Radio 4 The Long Now
	Political planning NHS workforce planning NHS preparedness for (a?) the (this?) Winter

Source: HIFA Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh with thanks.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power

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	Rainfall Sunshine Seasons Sea Levels Hotter - TEMPERATURES - Colder Agriculture

Planetary Health (ii) (and the need for a global conceptual framework)

I have 5,000 words drafted on Hodges' model and threshold concepts, for which I've yet to find a home. Staying with the previous post's theme of planetary health the paper includes the following: 

A decade ago Groffman, et al., (2006) stated that ecological thresholds can be 'troublesome' in being important but in having no practical application. Threshold concepts are not, however alone; there are also threshold questions (Halldén and Lundholm, 2009). The answers to these questions are critical to global sustainability and planetary boundaries (thresholds) - an ongoing research effort (Rockström et al., 2009).

Groffman, P., Baron, J., Blett, T., et al. (2006). Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application? Ecosystems, 9(1), 1-13.

Halldén, O. & Lundholm C. (2009). 25-30 August. Conceptual Change and the Complexity of Learning. Threshold Questions, Meaning making and Contextuality. Paper presented at the 13th conference European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Amsterdam, Holland.

Rockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. et al. (2009). Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society. 14(2): 32. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/

See also:

Jones, P. (2008). Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.

Planetary Health (i) (and the need for a global conceptual framework)

(with thanks to Global Health Now)

In a pointed challenge, Lancet editor-in-chief Richard Horton warned Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference attendees Saturday that an exclusive focus on improving health will fail.

Horton argued instead for planetary health.

“We have to cross outside of health and think about the relationship between health and other dimensions being defined as sustainability,”

Horton said, in a keynote address at the annual CUGH conference, which opened Saturday in San Francisco and attracted more than 1,800 attendees from around the world.

Citing the work of a Lancet Commission that published a 2014 manifesto, Horton argued that the global health community and others need to embrace planetary health. “Our vision is for a planet that nourishes and sustains the diversity of life with which we coexist and on which we depend,” Horton and others wrote in the manifesto.

Brian W. Simpson, Global Health NOW

Full text:

http://www.globalhealthnow.org/news/horton-to-cugh-planetary-health-is-the-solution
[ See below: PJ ]

Best wishes, Neil

Let's build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of healthcare knowledge - Join HIFA: www.hifa2015.org


https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-04/horton-cugh-planetary-health-solution

Previously on W2tQ:

One mind, many minds - ONE PLANET. One need, many needs - ONE PLANET: what price stability?

Exoplanets, exobiology, exocortex, exocare ...?

Notes (ii) from Paipa Conference: Q & A

Blog Action Day: h2cm around the water whole

TED: Nic Marks - The Happy Planet Index

Define 'pristine'? Designs of the Year 2015

Chips are very important -

- but let's look after the fish...

Of the Design Museum's Design of the Year 2015 I hope this one is successful (the chips are bound to follow...).


My source:
Heathcote E (2015) The strange, the striking and the elegant, FTWeekend, 16-17 May. p.4.

Five Domains - Five Gyres

There are five domains in Hodges' model that can help us assess, plan and formulate health and social care, support reflection upon interventions and evaluate progress over time. An aide-memoire indeed!

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	Brain Plasticity
	Plastic Brain

With five domains to support short and longer-term memory do we really need to force the oceans to remember when we fail to care...?

Angling for Ideas

The Angler by Paul Klee (1879-1940, Switzerland)

This is just a rock pool I reflect	So is this, even before Pollock just a single drip in the ocean
Fishing for praise	Here we trawl, as we do we maul. Why owns the holistic ocean? Does it bleed, does it leak? Abs-orbs all angles? just?

Image source: http://en.wahooart.com/@@/8LT48X-Paul-Klee-The-Angler

THE LANCET From public to planetary health: a manifesto

A new vision for planetary health

This manifesto for transforming public health calls for a social movement to support collective public health action at all levels of society. Our aim is to respond to the threats we face: threats to human health and wellbeing, threats to the sustainability of our civilisation, and threats to the natural and human-made systems that support us.

Our vision is for a planet that nourishes and sustains the diversity of life with which we co-exist and on which we depend. Our goal is to create a movement for planetary health.

If you agree with the broad thrust of the manifesto (not necessarily every detail), please register your agreement here ...