Books: Health Is Made at Home, Hospitals Are For Repairs. Building a Healthy and Health-Creating Society: Healthy Individuals Depend on Healthy Communities, a Healthy Society, and a Healthy Planet.

Abstract

Nigel Crisp SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, 2020, PB, 257pp, £9.99, 978-1838031305 Against the bleak backdrop of COVID-19, the murder of George Floyd, and raging fires from the Amazon to the Arctic, Lord Nigel Crisp’s latest book provides that rarest of commodities for current times: hope. Health Is Made At Home. Hospitals Are For Repairs. Building a Healthy and Health-Creating Society is a radical book from the former chief executive of the NHS. With a concept conceived in Africa, this book speaks to perennial ideas about health that have long been neglected by industrialised nations. The book centres on an expansive and inclusive vision of health and care for both our NHS and our society. One where everyone has a role to play and where governments and the economic system itself have a responsibility to create the conditions for health. In setting out this new vision, the book addresses …