TRANSFORMING HEALTH POLICY

Current health is most nations and organizations tends to be focused on the short term, unable to grasp the deeper causes. Thus medical mistakes are often blamed on migrant doctors or health cares with little evidence based behind them. Part of the problem is not just the that these are easy to sell political solutions but that there are lack of methods that allow for the creation of different health policy outcomes. This short article offers two such methods. The first is causal layered analysis and second is four quadrant mapping. Causal layered analysis seeks to unpack, deepen the future. It has four dimensions. The litany or the day-to-day future, the commonly accepted headlines of the way things are or should be. Solutions to problems are at this level usually short term. The second dimension is deeper, focused on the social, economic, political causes of the issue. The third dimension is the culture or worldview. This is the big picture, the paradigm that informs what we think is real or not real, the cognitive lenses we use to understand and shape the world. The fourth dimension is the myth or the metaphor- this is the deep unconscious story