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Hygeia’s Constellation Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World

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Acknowledgements

Abstract

Prologue

Introduction
     Hygeia's Constellation
     Purposes of this Document
     Joining Scholarly Conversations

Navigating Health Futures

Valuing Conditions
     Protecting What You Consider Special: The Star Path of Ke Ala Hoku
     Characterizing Public Health Work
     Seeing Conditions as Freedoms

Crafting Conditions
     Revisiting Broad Street: A Cautionary Tale
     From Broad Street to East Brooklyn: Choosing a Future

Perceiving Dynamic Conditions
     The Era of Relative Clarity
     The Era of Growing Confusion
     The Mismatch: Using Step-wise Strategies to Direct System-wide Change

Reorienting Public Health Work
     Shifting Perspectives
     Seeing Health Protection as a Whole System

Transforming Conditions
     The Example of North Karelia
     Anticipating Change
         The System Dynamics Approach
         Steps in SD Modeling
         Simulation Modeling: Finding Plausible Futures for Diabetes Prevalence
         Causal Mapping: A Dynamic Hypothesis on the Problem of Outside Assistance
     Directing Change

Reflecting on Public. Health. Work

Glossary

References

About the Author
 

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