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The model of preventionConsumer optimizationWellness products, personal data, supplements, and biotech define prevention.
Public health's permission to actConstant political resistancePublic health remains a routine target and its powers are tightly constrained.
How health truth is establishedCompeting evidence systemsCommunities use different experts, facts, and standards of proof.
⚡ Wild
The threat environmentUnfamiliar biological shockA novel or engineered threat falls outside existing assumptions.
Defining characteristics
Polarized individuals choose the evidence that speaks to their politics. Prevention is being defined at individual levels as well as by powerful corporations driven more by profit than population health. Prevention will be defined differently based on the person, group, etc defining it - influenced by culture, SES, etc.
Central theme
Instead of public health, it is becoming self-centered health.
The new normal
products/interventions being offered to you by companies that have info about you that you didnt know that those companies have about you. Normal for someone to call you up having knowledge of your personal health information (that you may or may not even have yourself).
Broken assumption
Data privacy, power, importance, relevance still exist. We could understand efficacy of interventions based on public health data
Drivers behind this world
NNPHI · Langrand

Future of Public Health