Earlier this year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced our new focus on building a Culture of Health, working to create a society where getting healthy and staying healthy is a fundamental and guiding social value that helps define American culture. We envision a society in which promoting health -- whatever your ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic or racial circumstance -- is as important as treating illness.
Empathy may not be an intuitive aspect of a Culture of Health but, in fact, it is integral. We must all believe we have a shared stake in being healthy and in meeting people where they are with the help that they need to thrive. People who lack empathy make decisions that not only hurt themselves, but also can hurt others around them.
[For more of this story, written by Tara Oakman, Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-oakman/not-the-end-of-the-story-_b_5621311.html]
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