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Very proud of this moment for Nudj Health and our amazing team. According to the Social Progess Index, out of 164 countries, the US ranks #64 on the metric of equal access to quality education and #89 on equal access to quality healthcare. When the biggest drivers of our chronic physical conditions are our lifestyle choices, those rankings are a stark reminder of why we are in the situation we are in. We spend more to live shorter, and more disease burdened lives than other countries with comparable GDP per capita rankings (we rank #8). Americans who traverse the health care system day in and day out, need to acquire more profound knowledge about their health. Literacy cannot just be handing out pamphlets after a clinic visit or providing an app for patients to fend for themselves; they need an actual team game planning, participating with them, architecting and re-architecting a patient’s health plan in the time in between their physician visits. Patients need help with the Xs and Os of their daily health. We need a playbook. We need to know the routes to run and how to run them. We need coaching. At Nudj Health, we wanted to make health literacy our mission- not just partake in the business of health, but become immersed in the deeper learning of health. We galvanized around the best practices, interventions, and of what it takes to be health-y. In Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he concludes that the main force pushing towards societal convergence, the reduction and compression of inequalities, “is the diffusion of knowledge and investments in training and skills”. That is our purpose. Continue the rapid diffusion of health knowledge, training and skills. We need this diffusion of knowledge now, more than ever in our country. We want to thank the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching for this recognition and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine for giving us the opportunity to listen and learn at their incredible conference last week. #healthcoaching #lifestylemedicine #healthliteracy
Nudj Health’s educational division, Nudj University, is an approved Health and Wellness Coach Training Education Program by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). Graduates of this program are eligible to apply for the HWC Certifying Examination to become a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). Read more: https://loom.ly/_Sm3e9U #healthcoach #lifestylemedicine #wellnesscoach #LM2024