How motivation can fix public systems | Abhishek Gopalka

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How do you fix broken public systems? You spark people's competitive spirit. In a talk about getting people motivated to make change, public sector strategist Abhishek Gopalka discusses how he helped improve the health system of Rajasthan, a state in India home to more than 80 million people, using the powers of transparency and public accountability. "Motivation doesn't just appear," Gopalka says. "Something needs to change to make you care.”

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.3	This is Ted Health.
0:08.3	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.
0:13.6	How do you create real, lasting change within an entrenched system like healthcare?
0:19.1	Public sector strategist Abhishek Gopalka was tasked with improving the broken public health
0:24.2	infrastructure of the Indian state of Rajasthan.
0:28.8	In his 2019 Ted at BCG Talk, he shares how he motivated individuals to change a culture,
0:35.3	increased accountability through transparency, and created competition between stakeholders
0:40.4	to radically transform their public health care system.
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0:55.0	What does adulthood mean in a place where more than three-quarters of people between ages
0:58.8	18 and 35 live with their parents?
1:01.9	What defines joy when you live in one of the top ranked countries for happiness?
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1:13.1	Take a minute and think of yourself as the leader of a country.
1:18.3	And let's say one of your biggest priorities is to provide your citizens with high quality
1:24.4	health care.
1:25.3	How would you go about it?
1:27.7	Build more hospitals.
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