Health is the first muse …

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Defining Health

At Rise.Health Solutions, we adopt an integrative model of health (incorporating physical and mental health), grounded in the dynamic interactions between individuals and their environments.

We believe that the resources possessed by an individual – biological, functional,  behavioral or experiential – can either strengthen or undermine health. As a corollary, the biological, functional, behavioral and experiential health assets of individuals can shape environments.

Precision Public Health (PPH)

Rise.Health Solutions leverages the principles of Precision Public Health (PPH).

Precision public health aims to use data-driven design principles to create and deliver targeted interventions in an appropriate time frame. The goal is to prevent the negative consequences associated with a range of exposures, and to mitigate harm to individuals and communities from such exposures.

Rise.Health Solutions principles:

• The Human Exposome is not a passive construct; it is both positive and negative, and can either promote or undermine human health and wellbeing.

• Individuals and communities respond and react differently to exposures depending on their innate and acquired attributes and capacities.

• The Human Exposome involves the mind/brain/body nexus (including the brain-gut-microbiome axis).

• The Human Exposome spans developmental time (a life course perspective), and embraces both the physical and social environment (natural and built environment, and individual and community behaviors).

• The Human Exposome varies by time, place and mobility; it is a dynamic, interactive construct with multiple levels or layers, and feedback loops.

  
  

At Rise.Health Solutions, we embrace and extend the concept of the ‘urban exposome’ .

We use advanced computational methods to model the relationships between various environmental exposures and human health, leveraging multiple data sets to model and map the exposome across the lifespan, and developing a toolkit that is fit-for-purpose for current and future urban needs.

The goal is to build extensible models and technologies to predict, mitigate and manage the differential impacts of exposure (potential risks and harms) and to identify and strengthen pathways to resilience at the individual and community level. This is consistent with our commitment to Resilience Medicine.

We supplement this with a focus on ‘participatory science’; multi-pronged Citizen Science initiatives to engage, motivate and train community members in the tenets of Exposure Science.

WELLNESS is an integrated concept embracing physical and mental health, and wellbeing. Wellness is a condition (or state of being) characterized by the harmonious integration of mind, body and self. We can optimize wellness by adopting health-empowering behaviors (nutrition, exercise, social connection) and by cultivating positive subjective wellbeing (hedonic dimension: maximizing joy and pleasure; and eudaimonic dimension: incorporating values and meaning into life).

When we bring these elements into alignment, we can achieve an optimum state of Wellness.

• Wellness falls along a continuum (.e. there are levels of Wellness)

• Wellness unfolds across different time scales, beginning before birth and continuing during the lifespan

• Wellness emerges from our experiences of - and reactions to - social and environmental stressors, and exposures

• Wellness is determined, in part, by the places in which we dwell

We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.

Tim Winton

Resilience Medicine is focused on remaking health and wellness every day: mitigating risk and optimizing potential in order to achieve and sustain individual and community resilience.