Interactional Creation of Health: Experience ecosystem ontology, task and method

By Mr Christopher Lawer

Interactional Creation of Health: Experience Ecosystem Ontology, Task and Method introduces a comprehensive framework for understanding and improving health through an ecosystem approach. Lawer proposes a shift from traditional health models to a more integrated and holistic view, focusing on the dynamic interactions within various domains of lived experience. Here are the key aspects of the book:

Health Ecosystem Value Design (HEVD) Framework: Lawer presents a revised version of his HEVD framework, which is built on seven foundational principles. These foundations help in understanding the complex flows and forces that shape experiences of health, disease, and illness over time.

Four Interactional Domains: The model identifies four primary domains-bodily-motor, perceptual-cognitive, social-cultural, and material-spatial. Each domain includes various entities and mechanisms that interact to form lived health experiences.
This approach emphasizes the interconnectedness of different factors influencing health.

Twelve-Step Method: The book provides a structured method for practitioners to analyze and improve health experiences. This method includes detailed templates and guidelines for conducting inquiries and implementing actions within health experience ecosystems. The aim is to enhance capacities in health systems for achieving valuable developmental impacts.

Action Spaces: Lawer outlines the concept of "action spaces" which are strategic areas for intervention. These spaces focus on addressing the origins of health issues, changing perceptions and beliefs, determining differences in lived experiences, and designing multi-dimensional strategies to create desired health outcomes. This involves integrating traditional and non-traditional actors and leveraging various technologies and services.

Holistic and Unified Model: The book advocates for a model that encompasses all aspects of health experiences, emphasizing the importance of understanding how different elements interact to form and sustain health over time. This holistic view aims to reveal hidden possibilities for creating health and preventing or recovering from disease.

Overall, Interactional Creation of Health aims to provide a new paradigm for health systems, encouraging a more dynamic and interconnected approach to health that can better address the complexities of lived experiences. This framework is designed to be applicable across various contexts, from individual health experiences to broader community and population health initiatives.

With a foreword by Venkat Ramaswamy, global co-creation thought leader and author of The Co-Creation Paradigm and The Future of Competition.

Praise for Interactional Creation of Health

"A much-needed paradigm shift in co-creating transformational change toward an enhanced state of our wellbeing. An outstanding, remarkable and masterful job." Professor Venkat Ramaswamy, Ross School of Business, Michigan University

"Chris Lawer's re-conception of value provides the breakthrough thinking that health systems need to repurpose resources and transform delivery systems." Professor Neal Halfon, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, inventor of Life Course Health Development model

"Chris Lawer's Health Ecosystem Value Design is an invaluable framework for understanding how to reimagine, redesign and transform our global health ecosystem. This book is an extraordinary next step in the evolution of health and care systems. Kudos to you for providing a pathway towards a new paradigm of global health." John Scully, retired US healthcare executive.

"Awesome Brilliant and super impactful " Daniel Pesut, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, University of Minnesota

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08V948LFV
• ISBN13: 9798646562037
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"