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REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL ANNOUNCES A NEW SERIES ON WHOLE-PERSON HEALTH: A PATIENT IS A PERSON This series is sponsored by UPIC Health July 15, 2024 [New York, NY] –– Today, Reasons to be Cheerful, the solutions-based online magazine founded by David Byrne, announced A Patient Is a Person, a new editorial series that delves into a groundbreaking approach to human health. The series will run from today until the end of the year, comprising 15 reported stories as well as an original comic strip that will anchor the series. Increasingly, medical systems, grassroots groups and advocates are embracing principles of whole-person health, a groundbreaking approach that sees people’s health as influenced by a vast array of factors in their lives. A Patient Is a Person will illuminate for readers how work, environment, housing, education, social connection and many other aspects of their life impact their health. Most important, it will reveal the unique and extraordinary responses and treatments emerging as awareness grows of just how interlinked our lives and our health really are. Ranging across the U.S. and beyond, A Patient Is a Person will unearth the seeds of whole-person care sprouting in communities, clinics and medical school classrooms everywhere. This multimedia series will spotlight how these examples of whole-person care are creating positive change on a multitude of levels, improving patients’ lives and expanding our very understanding of the definition of “good health.” “Reasons to be Cheerful’s health coverage has always focused less on conventional medicine, and more on approaches rooted in healthier ways of living,” says Executive Editor Will Doig. “We’ve reported on everything from surf therapy to gender doulas to participating in climate activism as a path to better well-being. So it felt natural to harness this coverage to the shift occurring in medicine, in which patients are seen as actual people, whose beautifully complex lives are closely interlinked with their health.” A Patient Is a Person is supported by UPIC Health. To learn more about our sponsor-funded content, read our Editorial Independence Policy. About Reasons to be Cheerful Reasons to Be Cheerful is a solutions-based online magazine covering health, culture, science and technology, climate and energy, economics, urban issues and civic engagement. It was founded by artist and musician David Byrne, who believes in the power of approaching the world with curiosity—in art, in music, in collaboration and in life. For more information please contact Executive Editor Will Doig: will@reasonstobecheerful.world Editorial Director Becca Worby: becca@reasonstobecheerful.world