A framework to make unpaid care visible to health systems

Nature Medicine proposes a way to measure and govern the unpaid care that health systems quietly rely on.

A Nature Medicine piece sets out a framework for measuring and governing the unpaid care that families and communities provide, arguing it is the hidden foundation that formal health systems depend on. Much of the work that keeps people well happens outside clinics and off the books, and it rarely shows up in health planning or budgets.

For care abundance, naming and measuring this work is a precondition to supporting it. If unpaid care can be counted and governed, it becomes possible to share the burden more fairly and to invest where the system currently free-rides. We could not reach the full source; the specifics of the proposed framework sit with their reporting.

Source: Nature Medicine