The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast Can We Make Companies Care About Your Health? | Building H Co-Founder Thomas Goetz
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Feb 10, 2025 Thomas Goetz, a journalist and entrepreneur, co-founded Building H to address corporate health accountability. He discusses how many products prioritize profits over wellness, making healthy choices tough for Americans. Goetz introduces a corporate health index aimed at evaluating companies' impact on consumer health. He highlights successful models like Pokémon Go that encourage healthier behavior. The conversation emphasizes the need for businesses to integrate health metrics into their models and the potential of public benefit corporations to lead this shift.
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Systemic Health Issues
- Individual health choices don't work at scale; societal structures often push us towards unhealthy options.
- We need to change the context of people's lives, not just expect individual change.
Fast Food's Drive-Through Focus
- Fast food drive-throughs exemplify how businesses prioritize profit over health, discouraging even walking into restaurants.
- Their sophisticated design maximizes corporate benefit but hinders human health.
Corporate Incentives vs. Health
- Corporate incentives prioritize profit and consumption, often conflicting with human health.
- Building H aims to create metrics that make companies aware of their health impacts.
