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No state has fallen further than Kansas in America’s Health Rankings. We used to be 8th in 1991.Why did we slip so far down in the rankings? The answer might surprise you; it’s based on a leadership challenge.
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Mindset #4: Create Collaboration (opens the original)
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Encouraging collaboration is fine. To close the Health Gap, you need to shift from “encouraging” to using your leadership and authority to “create” collaboration. In this episode, we dive into the approaches to creating collaboration — anchoring it in a specific goal, requiring it rather than merely encouraging it and sharing power with those who have lived experience of the challenge. Returning guest Kenny Wilk helps define what collaboration really means. We walk through the book's progress fo
Mindset #3: Race and Racism Matters (opens the original)
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What if the systems we built to move people forward are actually the ones holding communities back? This episode takes on one of the most important and most avoided conversations in public health: the relationship between race, racism and health outcomes. Joined by conversation catalyst, Kari Bruffett, President and CEO of the Kansas Health Institute, we explore the roots of health disparities and how leadership evolves when you confront the data, history and systems that dictate who thrives. Hi
Mindset #2: Work Systemically (opens the original)
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What if the way we’ve been trying to help individuals who need it is actually holding us back from solving complex Health challenges? Most of us have given to a food pantry, volunteered at a coat drive, or helped a neighbor in need. While those acts matter, to truly move the needle on Health in Kansas, individual acts of kindness aren’t enough. The 30,000 Kansans in positions of authority — elected officials, school leaders, business owners, pastors — have a unique power to shift not just how we
Mindset #1: Work Upstream (opens the original)
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Are you putting band-aids on a wound that needs surgery? Kansas ranks seventh in the nation for volunteerism, and yet our state has fallen further than any other in the national health rankings. What if all that good-hearted, charitable energy could be redirected — not away from helping people in need, but one step further upstream, toward preventing the need in the first place? This episode explores the first of nine mindsets from the book: the upstream mindset. We unpack the difference between
Part 3: From Diagnosis to Prescription | Understanding Mindsets (opens the original)
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In this bonus episode, we’re transitioning from Part Two in the book Leading Health and setting up Part Three, which introduces nine mindsets that the 30,000 need to hold if Kansas is going to lead the nation in health. In Part One, we describe the symptoms of Kansas, ranked #29 at the time of writing this book. In Part Two, listeners learn that the diagnosis isn’t a health challenge, but a leadership challenge. Now, in Part Three, we give the prescription through nine mindsets that help develop
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