{"id":7,"count":5,"description":"\u2018Health\u2019 and \u2018care\u2019 are words that we often use in daily speech as well as in research and policy \u2014 but that we do not always fully unpack to ourselves or each other. This cohort will meet over dinners to critically reflect on your personal and community service experiences of health and caregiving, and explore what it\r\nmight mean to conceptualize health as human adaptation to changing environments and care as human presence. As we consider how biosocial and medical realities shape each other, we will delve into\r\nquestions such as the following:\r\n\r\n\u2022 What are the social and medical implications of how we imagine \u2018health\u2019 and \u2018care\u2019? How do these concepts vary among patients and health practitioners and from community to community, and how are they intertwined with ideas of therapeutic efficacy and wellbeing?\r\n\u2022 How is healthcare organized and delivered and which values undergird it? Which structural factors and social markers impact healthcare access and health disparities?\r\n\u2022 How do vulnerable communities conceptualize illness and suffering and enact care?\r\n\u2022 How are \u2018best practices\u2019 in healthcare evaluated? Which kind of methodological toolkits can we assemble that will allow us to better identify people\u2019s needs and create responsive and caring practices?\r\n\r\nThis cohort\u2019s activities and project will focus on one of the most pressing health issues in the United States: the opioid epidemic, or what economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton call \u201cdeaths of despair.\u201d We will collaborate with Jefferson Medical School\u2019s Health Design Lab in Philadelphia, which is exploring\r\ninnovative ways to respond to the opioid epidemic in the Kensington neighborhood, while at the same time addressing community residents\u2019 other health concerns in this historically traumatized area. Along with the Health Design Lab\u2019s community partners in Kensington, students will work to collect and curate\r\nnarratives and data on the lived experiences of Kensington\u2019s residents, to inform ongoing work on community health and caregiving. Cohort members should be willing to undertake occasional trips to Philadelphia (likely on Friday afternoons) as part of this work.","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/focus\/category\/health-care\/","name":"Health & Care","slug":"health-care","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}