Santa Barbara Pilot
Santa Barbara is an ideal community to test the basic value proposition of the CHME, namely that it is possible to design an ecosystem that will nourish community-wide resilience; that improved resilience closely correlates with positive behavioral changes that strongly influencing health outcomes; and a community that actively builds resilience will enjoy enhanced health, wellness, and abundance for all.
Despite its sublime climate, affluence, and colorful culture, Santa Barbara faces many serious health and environmental challenges, and social issues of unequal access to healthcare, all of which impair community resilience. The medical, social, and economic costs of any one of the neurodegenerative illnesses—Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, or hypertension, for example—run in the $ 100s millions annually.
Santa Barbara is therefore an ideal community to test the basic value proposition of the CHME, namely that it is possible to design an ecosystem that will nourish community-wide resilience; that improved resilience closely correlates with positive behavioral changes that strongly influencing health outcomes; and community that actively builds resilience will enjoy enhanced health, wellness, and abundance for all.
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