Taking stock of the present, to shape a healthier future.
I will start this essay by saying something controversial, something which many readers may disagree with, perhaps strongly: there has never been a better, healthier time to be alive than right now. I say this is controversial because we are in the business of improving health. This starts with recognizing the many ways health needs improvement. If we do not spend significant parts of our days deepening our understanding of how health is undermined by forces like racism, inequality, climate change, and hate, we are, in a sense, not doing our job. Doing our job also means communicating to the wider world how these forces harm health. This work of communication means emphasizing where we are falling short on health and, perhaps at times, strategically deemphasizing where we are actually doing well.
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