Team 1Submitted
The world1984 corporate style
The shape of the publicNo common publicHealth is treated mainly as a private responsibility. Collective policy loses its sponsor and governance narrows toward consumer protection.
Public health's permission to actConstant political resistancePublic health remains a routine target and its powers are tightly constrained.
Control of body dataCorporate controlPlatforms and data brokers hold the most valuable datasets.
⚡ Wild
The threat environmentUnfamiliar biological shockA novel or engineered threat falls outside existing assumptions.
- Defining characteristics
- 1. Corporations will continue to amass power, resources, data on individual lives, 2. Elected officials do not have the ability or backbone to resist (and cede public health response to private entities), 3. Health disparities widen (more and more benefit attached to people who can afford and people who also don't resist)
- Central theme
- Corporations taking on role of governmental public health. Less and less interest in caring for your neighbor
- Broken assumption
- Public health doesn't serve the people, but the corporations.
public health, health disparities, shorter life spans for many,
Drivers behind this world