Understanding Dahlgren and Whitehead’s “Rainbow Model” of Health Determinants Health is not just about individual choices or genetics—it is deeply influenced by a broad range of social, economic, and environmental factors. The Dahlgren and Whitehead “Rainbow Model” (1991) provides a comprehensive framework to understand these determinants. It illustrates how multiple layers of influence shape an individual’s health, emphasizing that public health interventions must go beyond personal behavior to address wider social and structural factors. The Structure of the Rainbow Model The “Rainbow Model” is depicted as a series of concentric layers surrounding an individual, with each layer representing different levels…

Three weeks before, I had to unlearn my learning about Maslow’s pyramid; it is not his. He did not build it to explain his theory about human motivation; “Maslow did not build a pyramid to explain his theory”. I read about it for the first time in a Scientific American article. It was titled “Who Created Maslow’s iconic pyramid? and written by Scott Barry Kaufman”. Who built the pyramid? The pyramid was built into Maslow’s theory more than a decade later after Maslow’s initial introduction in 1943. Charles McDermid, a management expert, introduced the pyramid into Maslow’s theory. We can…

COVID 19 vaccine hesitancy is real. It hurts. With Omicron, vaccine hesitancy has become a major roadblock. The problem has gone viral very much like the COVID19 spread. What is COVID 19 vaccine hesitancy? Vaccine hesitancy refers to situations when someone either refuses or delay getting the CVODI19 vaccines. Vaccine hesitancy is not new; it has been there for all vaccines. However, we are discussing this again with this COVID19 pandemic. We have many resources to learn more about it. The latest addition is the Coursera course. It is free. This post dives into this excellent resource. About the course…

Updated December 28, 2022. Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed has influenced adult learning and social change movements remarkably; although he published it in 1968, its influence has not waned over the years. It is, in fact, a classic masterpiece of community change. Paulo Freire (1927-1997) was a Brazilian educationist. Originally, the book came out in Spanish. His work with Chilean peasants had become very helpful for his research and to develop his adult education theories. We can find those theories in this book. You can read and download its 30th-anniversary edition through this link; https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf A review of the…