medicine and talking about some of the issues of the day education best medicine was created by twenty years ago to discuss health care access to health care disparity issues i want to first start with education and then move more receive that care in the social determinants this is also a like a follow up show for us and i want to just give little clips of some of the people that i've really been blessed to have in the program over a period time my first group is going to be  he had no beginning he has no end and so he is he's for a living in the fact that we need to believe in something higher than ourselves and god i believe needs to be at the center of every family every community because this is where people keep the family strong it gives a family structure and that's what i believe america needs if not the world and that's what gives us stability you know your journey a today's individual about understand bills in the context of religious support well one of the things i learned in that it's a good question is watch my father when i was a kid and he read his bible every day and what he had me to do was stand in front of him and read from the scriptures when i was about seven or eight years old and he gave me structure it gave me the understanding that something is better and bigger than i am and you need to get to know who that is that's god and so i've always had that in my in my in my system so it was a it was an easy transition for me to get into the ministry to study the word of god and to become a minister at the at the congregation and i'm at and i've been there all but nine years there but i've been preaching for about seventeen eighteen years now and the impact it has in the structure it gives me is to teach others to do the same thing you know to have respect for god because i believe if you have respect for god then you have respect for for mom dad grandma grandpa and everybody else in the family let alone teachers and and other leaders in our community and when you have people that have respect it gives them some dignity and you recognise other people that they should have dignity as well and have respect for people so that we don't have the the uprising of broken families and and  realized that he needed and he was in fact he had quite a status because he worked in the queen's court but he realized that he had to have god in his life and he saw a body of water and he requested it would prevent and the paper that i'm referring to i want to read and cobb for her discussion because we will also want to inject understand spiritual issues and cultural issues in terms of our need to understand that about the things we do as men when nothing else is available to us the things we do when we don't have access to basic education basic food clothing shelter issues i always laugh remark i tell people that recently and we talked about his movement away from portree to more discussion around changing his writing his writing style and we he's offered this book is available next and you can get it online i think it's a great are right now in the middle of creating working spaces where people can be a way can be a creative cauldron or we as we call it a creative gumbo that allow idea formulated and discussed again her discussion and their discussions around that and i'm going to play a few clips of her show of the show thank you very much what it is is a collaborative ory it's a space that's a combination of co working space it's a place where skill shares and what have gone through time it's a place where innovators community organizers consultants artists philanthropist come together and they hopefully are doing work and creating opportunities to work together and a way that brings about a more just and sustainable environmentally equitable working environment you know it's a place for us to collaborate on purpose yeah i would say that your hub oakland is at the center space is one of the centerpieces but the main centerpiece is really community it's a community of like minded individuals who are all concerned with where we are on the planet and where we're headed and who have ideas are an impulse even if you don't have the formed you have the impulse to be a part of the change that's happening on the planet and so it's a place where those types of people like minded individuals who are mission driven come together they work out of the space like she said they cold learn they collaborate and but just by being in the same you know it's physical space all kinds of magic happens and it's a place where magic happens where those people where people come together and and find what about the fact that it is a there are three pillars there's the space as you mention having a really innovative physical space that is that is interesting to be in that w spark ideas right so there's space and then there's community like i said which is i think it's the center of people it's always about the people and then the third pillar is programs how we deliver the mission is the program so there's a lot of events programs things that interest people bring them into the door and spark ideas and so our mission is to provide the container that people come in to and they create the and we talk about the attainment of healthy living spaces but healthy working spaces and be looking forward toward their show in the next couple of weeks excellent discussion around how piers that there is a lack of honesty piers that there is a lack of support as it appears is a lack of acceptance in differences it's unfortunate that you know in my own exposure in the community right now i find a level of dishonesty in the level of lack of character and this plays itself out in so many different kinds of aspects of our lives i'm working on juncture in our male lives unintentional injuries example a person gets in a car having used alcohol dries fast kills himself until someone else so these are the kind of things that we're talking about sometimes it's genetics environment but majority of cancers due to a long term or smoking of tobacco products and use of tobacco products including throat lung cancers again these are  concerns that and the reason why we breathe is a concern because these are things that we make can be preventative in terms of their treatment and we want men to start looking in a more prevention base model my my  act understand that the way we've practiced medicine is going to be totally different we're moving from a fee based procedure based medical system to one day a prize itself and prevention education health care promotion and access and reduce cost a lot we don't really have that far to go when you look at the american health care system that we're between tween i think thirtieth in terms of life commonly known as health care reform actually was passed in march two thousand and ten and some of the provisions under that act included for example extending the age limit between nineteen and twenty six years old for young people to still continue to be on their parents health care plans as as one example so there were some provisions that were implemented you know during  once it was passed in two thousand and ten another one of those provisions had to do with preexisting you know health care issues so you know those you any health care provider could not deny health care coverage and health care service to an individual who had a preexisting illness such as possibly cancer diabetes so those were some of the provisions that were passed you know once the legislation which is a historic piece of federal legislation that was and acted i think that that we need to underscore that it's it's an effort in which to create universal health care in the united states which obviously has never been enacted here before it's intended to try to provide you know access to  health insurance for everyone to be able to hold health providers accountable and also to be able to create health care coverage where again irrespective of what know what's most important is to realize that it does expand coverage within alameda county so you know we often talk in terms of poverty level so the affordable care act now allows folks who are zero percent to two hundred percent of poverty  circumstances environmental conditions behavior choices and medical care a discussion on premature deaths in nice case can be attributed to each of these domains  the category of social circumstances include education employment income disparities poverty housing crime and social cohesion the way these factors interact to thing that makes us who we are as africans in america is the color in our skin i want to thank everyone for watching the show and one thing all you for viewing this show in all its forms please started long before that