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• Harvie, J. (2019). Early Lessons From The Food Commons: A New Economic Whole System Approach for Regional Food. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(A), 77–86. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2019.091.045

• Harvie, J., Guarneri, E. (2020). Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Holistic Thinking. In: Al-Delaimy, W., Ramanathan, V., Sánchez Sorondo, M. (eds) Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31125-4_16

• Harvie, J. (2016) The Next Health System A white paper offering new paradigm thinking about the future of health and healthcare

• Eleven Principles for Creating Health (pdf) :  Creating Health Collaborative
  

• Communities Creating Health: Stanford Social Innovation Review 2015
  

• Harvie, J. (2015). Time to Return to the Whole. Stanford Social Innovation Review. https://doi.org/10.48558/FGBD-2039  Only by finding a new narrative that embraces the whole, rather than the parts, can we build the health-creating systems we need.

• Commons Health Conference Proceedings 2015 (pdf)

• Commons Health Conference Proceedings 2014 (pdf)

• Commons Health Conference Proceedings  2013 (pdf)

• Nuka Care System 

Nuka System of Care is a name given to the whole health care system created, managed and owned by Alaska Native people to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness.

• Being Alive Well

The core of this book is an ethnographic study of the Whapmagoostui Cree and their particular concept of "health" (miyupimaatisiiun or "being alive well").

• Vivir Bien (pdf) published by Focus on the South
  

Vivir Bien is a Spanish word that refers to the way of life of indigenous peoples in South America. The Aymara people call it sumaqamaña, the Quechua, sumakkawsay, the Peruvian Amazon, Kametsa Asaiki and the Guaraní, ñandereko. It can also be translated as “living well,” “good life,” "knowing how to live,” “inclusive life,” “sweet life,” among others.

• The Case for Commons Health Care - Healthcare Policy Journal Explore Jan 2012

• Healthcare's Blind Side: The Overlooked Connection between Social Needs and Good Health (RWJ)

• International Agriculture Assessment of Science Technology and Development (IAASTD)

• National Health Service Route Map for Sustainable Health 

• Treating Health Care as a Commons  -  Two physicians explain how the commons could be used to improve medical care (On The Commons)

• A Sense of Priorities for the Healthcare Commons 

• (Am J Prev Med 2006;31(1):99–102) © 2006 American Journal of Preventive Medicine

 

• Community Benefit and Anchor Institutions: Linkages and Opportunities (Webinar - Democracy Collaborative and Community Catalyst)

 

Watch The Ecology of Health  travel on a unique journey from our cells to our community to our planet to our cosmos.

Health, healthcare and navigating in uncertainty. CleanMed Talks 2017

One Sacred Earth (OSE) is a commons health partner. OSE is working to employ and foster gratitude, for the gifts of nature, as a means to reconnect our relationship with planet earth