HealthePeople - Building a Healthy and Thriving Future

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Achieving Healthy People

Achieving Healthy and Thriving Future

We have begun challenging journey toward achieving healthy and thriving people, communities and world. Thrive! is overall vision, mission and strategy for thriving. HealthePeople is vision, mission and strategy for health and well-being.

To achieve healthy people and healthy and thriving future, “HealthePeople - Building a Healthy and Thriving Future” offers integrated strategy for you, your communities and our world.

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HealthePeople - Achieving Healthy and Thriving Future for All People, Communities, Countries and World

This strategy was created with belief that we can help reach vision of healthy people and healthy and thriving future via a strategy of high performance health systems for all that are self-perpetuating, affordable, accessible, person-centered, “e” enabled, prevention-oriented, and producing high health quality, outcomes and status.

Such systems, partly physical and partly virtual and put into place by collaborative private and public partnerships, will greatly improve accessibility, quality, affordability and health status for all people.

To positively change that future and achieve healthy people, “HealthePeople - Building a Healthy and Thriving Future” combines the best of all strategies to achieve healthy people and achieve a healthy and thriving future for you, your communities, your country, and our world.

HealthePeople - Achieving Healthy and Thriving Future for America's People and America

America needs effective transformation as we spend over 1/6th (about $3.6 trillion in 2018) of our economy on health without producing a healthy America or a healthy people.

We are on a challenging journey toward reforming the American health system and improving America's health. America enacted substantial health care reform in 2010 that is a major improvement, especially for un- and underinsured. Unfortunately, there is much needed health reform that the law could have addressed better and ensure the health of all Americans.

To positively change that future and achieve healthy people, “HealthePeople - Building a Healthy and Thriving Future” offers integrated strategy and effective reform that would result in accessible, affordable and high quality American health system. Combining best of all our strategies, we can achieve healthy people and achieve healthy and thriving future for America.

New Book on Chris - A Life in Pursuit of Thriving for All

This is story of and by Chris [Gary “Chris” Christopherson] and his lifelong pursuit of a thriving future – all thrive forever. It begins and ends in rural western Wisconsin. But so much happens, much in Washington (DC), in intervening 70+ years. Available in paperback and eBook via Amazon.com or as a free download [PDF]

Our worst fear! Worst (future) pandemic ever!

Our worst fear should not be the current COVID-19 pandemic. It should not be the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. It should be a future pandemic that could be much worse than COVID-19 or Spanish Flu. Worse because it could be much more transmissible. Worse because it could be much more lethal. Worse because we do not prevent or control the pandemic. Worse because it kills most, if not all, humans.

What is the “worst pandemic” that we would most have to fear and be least likely to prevent or control?

Proposed Global Surveillance and Response System for Infectious Diseases

Draft GS&RS proposal by Gary Christopherson to Surveillance & Response Subcommittee, consisting of multiple agency representatives of U.S. health agencies. Never approved. If it was in place, much illness and death from COVID-19 could have been avoided.

"As envisioned, a global surveillance and response system for infectious diseases (GS&RS) brings to bear resources worldwide that prevent and, when failing that, control diseases infecting plants, animals and human beings.

As such, the GS&RS should be an interlinked and robust network of international, regional, national and local efforts designed to a) carry out surveillance of infectious diseases worldwide, b) prevent disease outbreaks whenever possible, c) increase our understanding of how to prevent and treat/cure these diseases, d) develop the tools necessary to prevent and treat/cure these diseases, and e) respond early and effectively when disease outbreaks occur anywhere in the world.

GS&RS’ effectiveness is to be measured by the absence of harmful infectious diseases and the related morbidity and mortality prevented."

New: HealthePeople Strategy Before, During and After Pandemics.

HealthePeople’s primary focus is on people getting and being healthy. And it understands and takes on challenges posed by human pandemics. COVID-19 is just the latest and one of the most challenging. HealthePeople, as should current health system(s), will succeed by successfully addressing human pandemics simultaneously with achieving and maintaining healthy persons, communities, countries, and world.

When in place, HealthePeople Thriving Health Systems provide a coordinated community strategy to successfully manage pandemics (like COVID) and all other health conditions (non-COVID) simultaneously and successfully.

Also in HealthePeople Book (Amazon.com or free download)

Downloadable PDF

COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Until COVID-19 is no longer a threat, make sure you take protective measures to keep your loved ones, your community, and yourself as safe as possible.

For information on COVID-19 and what you should do, let me suggest the Centers for Disease Control (www.CDC.gov ) and CNN (TV or website - www.CNN.com ) They are both pretty good on keeping their information current throughout the day.

New Book: HealthePeople^® - Achieving Healthy People, Communities, Countries & World via Thrive! is available via Amazon.com or free download here.

New Book: First People Thriving Health Systems^© - Achieving healthy and thriving First People is available via Amazon.com or free download here.

Achieving healthy and thriving people and communities for all everywhere.

A Thriving Health System has persons and their communities at the center. At the center is the person and the person’s Primary Health Support surrounded by all needed and wanted Health Support. It adjusts when locations, time, person, and community change. It takes into account all of personal and community characteristics and all of health and well-being. It understands personal and community environment and its impact on health and well-being. It understands and uses the full range of health and thriving support to improve and sustain health and well-being. It connects all of these, with information and other support, into a fully integrated and supportive system for persons and communities.

Related Efforts & Websites

Thrive! - All Thrive Forever

GChris Sculpture & Fiction

ThrivingFuture.org

Thrive!^® is a vast, sustained human endeavor coupled with a vision, mission and call for action. It strives to energize and empower a vast endeavor of people together building and sustaining a thriving future, including you, your communities, and our world. It envisions, calls for and strives to achieve a thriving future for all forever. Its mission is to help create and sustain positive change to help build communities and a world that not only survive but thrive.

Thrive! Endeavor^® is to have people of all backgrounds and generations join together in this endeavor. It strives to motivate governments, private sector organizations and people to seek a thriving future and to work together to build and sustain that future.

In support of Thrive! are several websites and blogs available via ThriveEndeavor.org and public policy books that are available via ThriveEndeavor.org and Amazon.com

GChris.com

GChris abstract sculptures, created by Gary "Chris" Christopherson, are what is termed "thrive sculpture" and are heavily mission-driven. Advanced by the art are core progressive values - reducing human vulnerability, maximizing human potential, saving our environment, and building a thriving future. Existing GChris sculptures number over 200 with dimensions ranging from a few inches to 12 feet and larger.

Chris wrote four science fiction books - The Thrive! Endeavor, Extinction - The Failure To Thrive, Thrive! - Escape From Extinction, and black box. Stories of unknown technologies, science, religion, politics with the human pursuit of positive personal and global change and a thriving future or all forever. He wrote two children's books - T!rrific [terrific] - What will you do to thrive? and Angel, Thriving Creator of Artful Things. All are available at GChris.com and Amazon.com.

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