The Community Cure: Transforming Health Outcomes Together

by James Maskell

Imagine if there was a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health.

In his second book, James Maskell shows how community—specifically group medical visits—can help us solve these challenges. A supportive community provides the context for ongoing healthy behaviors, key to reversing chronic illness. By advocating for and facilitating group visits, those who are passionate about health transformation can shift the collective focus to prevention and root cause resolution.

The Community Cure is a comprehensive guide to group how they originated, what they are, how to run them, how to avoid pitfalls and overcome challenges, best practices for launching and facilitating a group visit, as well as online and digital tools for ongoing support. This training manual empowers administrators, CEOs, staff, and healthcare providers to activate the future of medicine.

Genres: Health

220 pages, Paperback

Published January 4, 2020

Reviews

[Mia Muñoz · Rating 2 out of 5]

My MIL gave me this book. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[James E Lemire · Rating 5 out of 5]

James does it again

James Haskell has a gift for empowering everyone who he works with through his sharing. This book just like his first one are clear examples of this.
Through simple language he provides powerful tools along together with an organized roadmap to success as a practice but more important also teaches practitioners how best to assist the patients on their health journey.
Thank you James

[Wanda Bedinghaus · Rating 1 out of 5]

A must read for all who want to transform our health system

James presents a very inspiring subject about how developing a sense of community in our health care, not only creates a platform for healing, but also increases our connectivity to each other to support and inspire each other to take our health seriously. I highly recommend this book and the functional medicine approach to healing our human family.

[Gary Oftedahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mind blowing…and much to ponder

In a very readable, structured way, the author triggered many thoughts and ideas…which after practicing internal medicine for over 25 years, and recognizing how limited my biomedical model really was, this drives my desire, as a now retired physician, to use my history, my wisdom, my openness to innovation, to make this happen…somewhere, somehow, some time….thanks for a stimulating and “mind blowing” experience.

[Emily Mahler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book, well written, and exactly what needs to happen in healthcare!

Excellent book, well written, and exactly what needs to happen in healthcare!

I’ve been on my own journey of doing parts of this, and this book was so validating and gave me ideas to continue in implementing different aspects.

[Alicia Brear · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice quick read that reinforces the importance of community in health. My dream for the future is that nutritionists and GP’s can work together to support health. Has inspired me to start a group in my local community.

[Lynette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Heard him on a podcast and liked the ideas.
Got the book.
Realised everything I needed was in the podcast. This happens to me all the time.
Mostly written for an American audience but has given me some ideas to develop so it’s done it’s job.

[Marjorie Helmuth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! Especially how it exposed the effects of loneliness on people's well being and the necessity of community in creating lasting health. Everyone in the health/medical field should read this.

[Tamara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information, geared towards clinicians.

[Kimberley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish the ideas in this book could be put into practice immediately! I've been an advocate of salutogenisis (studying health and what works) for years! I loved every idea in the book and hope they are our future. If we are ever going to have a healthy humanity, it will be because we put ideas like these into practice. I don't think James was hard enough on the industrial medical complex that will prevent all these possibilities. Perhaps we can create new, popular enough, community systems that can circumvent the use of the present-day health system that we are all burdened with.

[K So · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book to supplement my learning in the PreKure Certificate in Health Coaching. I was looking for ways that Youth Work and Community Development can be integrated into “Transforming Health Outcomes”. I feel that Teacher Aides, school teachers, community based educators, youth workers in communities and maternal and child health workers could benefit from Nutrition Science training. Even in community organizations like Scouts programs and after school activity programs I see a space and place for nutrition training. If the medical care system is going to be really effective perhaps Drs ( MDs and ODs) could synergistic engage with allied community health for early intervention especially people that are at the coal face. This book raised some interesting questions for me about the alliances and web between education and healthcare. I don’t think there’s enough. The web can be weaves and layers added. Community interagency network meetings (6 weekly?) are a practical and meaningful method for this to occur.

[Melody · Rating 4 out of 5]

Community Vision Welcome

Although for practitooners, thoae who sre ailing can follow and try implemrnting some of the information in their search for wellness. Afuyire possibility.