Copyright 2006-10
Gary A. Christopherson
Info Papers
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Building A Healthy America and World |
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Thriving Future
Thrive! is a great endeavor coupled with a vision, mission and call for action. As an endeavor, it strives to energize and empower a vast endeavor of people together building a thriving future for our families, communnities, nations and world.
It envisions, calls for and strives to achieve a thriving future. Its mission is to help create and sustain positive change to help build communities and a world that not only survive but thrive.
The Thrive! endeavor and strategy is to have people of all backgrounds and generations join together in this endeavor. It strives to motivate governments, private sector organizations and people to seek a thriving future and to work together to build that future.
In support, viaFuture provides strategies, models and tools to determine where we are today and where we want to go in the future. To achieve that future, it helps design, manage and execute the strategies, policies and programs, and the collaborative and individual actions. viaFuture.org
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Building a Healthy
America and World
A Vision and Strategy for Achieving
a Healthy, Thriving America and World
We as a nation have begun a challenging journey toward reforming the American health system and improving Americans’ health. Other nations are pursuing their own paths to building their own healthy nations.
In America, a substantial health reform law was enacted in 2010. That law and its effective implementation are expected to be major improvements, especially for the un- and underinsured. Unfortunately, there is much needed health reform that the law could have addressed better or the law did not address in a significant manner.
In America, the need for more effective transformation is great because we spend 1/6th ($2.5 trillion) of our economy on health without producing a healthy America or healthy Americans. Without an even greater transformation in vision, strategy and execution, our future will be as disappointing as our past.
To positively change that future and achieve true and full health reform, “Building a Healthy America” has much to offer as an integrated strategy, using “HealthePeople” and "viaFuture" as supporting strategies. These strategies also apply globally.
This strategy was created with the belief that America can reach the vision of a healthy, thriving America via an endgame strategy of a high performance, American health (including long term care) system for all Americans that is self-perpetuating, affordable, accessible, “e” enabled, and producing high health quality, outcomes and status.
Such an American system, partly physical and partly virtual and put into place by collaborative private and public partnerships, will greatly improve accessibility, quality and affordability for all Americans.
The 2010 health reform law provides progress for America. But, it fails to cover all key issues, and implementation will be a huge challenge.
“Building a Healthy America and World” addresses current programs, the 2010 health reform law, the remaining gaps and the execution challenges. Combining the best of all our strategies, together we can build a substantially healthier America and move toward a truly healthy, thriving America and world.
viaFuture
"viaFuture" is a strategy to create and sustain large, positive change. It combines strong leadership and multi-generational involvement with next generation policy, program, information and management.
We need a better future and a better vision for that future. We need a vision where all generations join together to fix our broken world and save our endangered future. We want to achieve positive, sustainable systems that help save what is broken and what is endangered and achieve a better future, a thriving world.
To help make this happen,
viaFuture draws upon lessons learned over the past 30+
years by Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government,
and private sector organizations to create more effective and integrated
programs and policies and to successfully manage these programs and
policies.
Vulnerable in America (via)
In America and in the world, we are all vulnerable to a greater or less extent. We need to minimize vulnerability via policies and politics that systematically stop forces that push us down to more vulnerability and support forces that lift us out of vulnerability.
“Vulnerable in America (via)” is the suggested term for a strategy to minimize vulnerability. “Vulnerability” is what we are targeting to change. “via”, defined as by way or means of, is how we bring about the change. We can set the vision for a thriving America and world and the endgame strategy for achieving that vision.
To help make this happen, Vulnerable in America (via) draws upon lessons learned over the past 30+ years by Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector organizations to create more effective and integrated programs and policies to reduce vulnerability and to successfully manage these programs and policies.
GChris abstract sculptures are what is termed "progressive art" and are heavily mission-driven. Advanced by the art are core progressive values - reducing human vulnerability, maximizing human potential, saving our environment, and living at "peace on and with the earth."
Progressive art is art with a purpose and artist as advocate. "Art as advocacy; advocacy as art."
GChris Sculpture
Existing GChris mobiles and stabiles may be purchased and number over 100 pieces with dimensions ranging from a few inches to 12 feet and larger. Works of all sizes, even larger works, can be commissioned.
