71. Helping to stay healthy instead of curing disease - the new healthcare?

Fredrik Söder is working on the unique Health Integrator project - catching people on the road to diabetes to help them reverse the trend and stay healthy. Henrik Lindgren works with Skolklassikern, which gets middle school students to move more. Both are projects outside of traditional healthcare that are about helping people stay healthy rather than curing disease.

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