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Playlist: What doctors worry about (14 talks)

We worry about what our doctors will tell us -- and so do they. Doctors, scientists and medical researchers weigh in on health care and better health practices.
Curated by TED · 14 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/what_doctors_worry_about

Playlist: Build Back Better - Health (6 talks)

Curated by TED · 6 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/build_back_better_health

Playlist: The link between health and racism (9 talks)

Learn about the detrimental (and even deadly) impact racism has on our minds and bodies — and what society can do to heal and support the wellbeing of all.
Curated by TED · 9 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/the_link_between_health_and_racism

Playlist: The struggle of mental health (12 talks)

Depression, schizophrenia, suicidal feelings—too often, these experiences stay private. These speakers who've struggled with mental illness boldly share their stories, in hopes that others don't feel so alone.
Curated by TED · 12 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/the_struggle_of_mental_health

Playlist: TED Salon: Optum (6 talks)

Fresh thinking on how we can make a health system that works better for everyone.
Curated by TED · 6 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/ted_salon_optum

Playlist: Take charge of your health care (10 talks)

You may be the patient. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be an active participant in getting the best possible care.
Curated by TED · 10 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/take_charge_of_your_healthcare

Playlist: How can we keep our brains healthy? (11 talks)

The almighty brain! ... The problem is, we only get one. These talks have great advice on what we can do to ensure its health and well-being.
Curated by TED · 11 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/how_can_we_keep_our_brains_healthy

Raj Panjabi | TED Speaker

A billion people around the world lack access to health care because they live too far from a clinic. 2017 TED Prize winner Raj Panjabi aims to extend health services to the last mile.
Physician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/raj_panjabi

Vanessa Garrison | TED Speaker

As COO of GirlTrek, Vanessa Garrison mobilizes African-American women and girls to reclaim their health and communities through walking.
Health activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/vanessa_garrison

Ivan Oransky | TED Speaker

Ivan Oransky is the executive editor of Reuters Health, and has done pioneering work in covering scientific retractions.
Health reporter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ivan_oransky

Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucien_engelen_crowdsource_your_health

Raj Panjabi: Community health heroes

Raj Panjabi has a bold idea: to recruit and train an army of community health workers to bring medical care to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. See how technology is transforming things for health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's just-launched initiative, the Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact....
https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_panjabi_community_health_heroes

Rebecca Onie: What if our health care system kept us healthy?

Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_onie_what_if_our_health_care_system_kept_us_healthy

Laurel Braitman: The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers

Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health while handling new and complex pressures? TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shows how writing and sharing personal stories helps physicians, nurses, medical students and other health professionals connect more meaningfully with themselves and others -- ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/laurel_braitman_the_mental_health_benefits_of_storytelling_for_health_care_workers

Playlist: Young inventors who are changing how we stay healthy (5 talks)

These speakers — all under 21 when they gave their talks — have big ideas for our health. Meet young people who are taking on cancer, asthma, injuries, even Alzheimer’s with a bold new approach.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/young_inventors_who_are_changi

Raj Panjabi’s big idea for rural health care

I wish that you will help me recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, empower and connect. The plan A billion people around the world lack access to health care, simply because they live too far from a doctor or clinic. For them, getting m...
https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/community-health-academy

Margaret Bourdeaux | TED Speaker

Margaret Bourdeaux investigates the best ways to protect, recover and reconstruct health systems and institutions disrupted by war or disaster.
Physician, global health policy analyst
https://www.ted.com/speakers/margaret_bourdeaux

Andrew Bastawrous | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people.
Eye surgeon, inventor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andrew_bastawrous

Ernest Madu: World-class health care

Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ernest_madu_world_class_health_care

Vikram Patel | TED Speaker

Vikram Patel helps bring better mental health care to low-resource communities -- by teaching ordinary people to deliver basic psychiatric services.
Mental health care advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/vikram_patel

Stefan Larsson | TED Speaker

A doctor by training, Stefan Larsson of BCG researches how transparency of medical outcomes and costs could radically transform the healthcare industry.
Value-based health care advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/stefan_larsson

Thomas Insel | TED Speaker

The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel supports research that will help us understand, treat and even prevent mental disorders.
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/thomas_insel

Playlist: What 2016 taught us about ourselves (13 talks)

A year in reflection of what we learned about our personalities, health, hopes and world as we know it.
Curated by TED · 13 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/what_2016_taught_us_about_ours

Timothy Ihrig | TED Speaker

Timothy Ihrig advocates for an approach to healthcare that prioritizes a patient's personal values.
Palliative care physician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/timothy_ihrig

Richard J. Wood: How do carbohydrates impact your health?

The things we eat and drink on a daily basis can impact our health in big ways. Too many carbohydrates, for instance, can lead to insulin resistance, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes. But what are carbs, exactly? And what do they do to our bodies? Richard J. Wood explains. [Directed by Qa'ed Mai, narrate...
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_j_wood_how_do_carbohydrates_impact_your_health

Marvin Minsky: Health and the human mind

Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.
https://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_health_and_the_human_mind

Laurie Garrett | TED Speaker

Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett studies global health and disease prevention. Her books include "The Coming Plague" and "Betrayal of Trust," about the crisis in global public health.
Science journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/laurie_garrett

Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_the_mainframe

Paula Johnson: His and hers ... health care

Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two sexes respond to disease or treatment. As pioneering doctor Paula Johnson describes in this thought-provoking ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/paula_johnson_his_and_hers_health_care

Raj Panjabi: No one should die because they live too far from a doctor

Illness is universal -- but access to care is not. Physician Raj Panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone, everywhere. With the 2017 TED Prize, Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a global platform that aims to modernize how community health workers learn vital skills, creating jobs along the way.
https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_panjabi_no_one_should_die_because_they_live_too_far_from_a_doctor
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