What if one of the biggest barriers to better health isn't a lack of information—but the inability to navigate the system?

In Episode 22 of The Public Health Practice Gap, Dr. Bradley Fevrier explores The Navigation Fallacy—the mistaken belief that publishing more brochures, websites, resource guides, and resource directories automatically improves health outcomes.

Using a simple story about his daughter's struggle to understand an amusement park map, Dr. Fevrier explains why many of our healthcare and public health systems are designed for administrators rather than the people they are intended to serve.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why information alone rarely changes behavior

• The hidden cognitive burden placed on patients and families

• Why Community Health Workers and peer navigators are essential to modern healthcare

• The difference between transactional care and relational care

• Practical strategies for redesigning health systems people can actually navigate

Whether you're a public health professional, healthcare leader, policymaker, educator, researcher, or student, this episode will challenge how you think about implementation, health equity, and systems design.

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Why do so many public health interventions fail despite expanding access to healthcare?

In Episode 21 of The Public Health Practice Gap, Dr. Bradley Fevrier challenges one of public health's most commonly accepted assumptions—that increasing access automatically leads to better health outcomes.

Using a simple but powerful story from an amusement park, this episode explores why the real barrier is often not access itself, but the friction people experience trying to use available services.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why "access" has become an incomplete measure of success

• The difference between access and implementation

• How behavioral friction influences health decisions

• Why prevention continues to lag behind clinical care

• How healthcare systems unintentionally create "Fast Lanes" for some while leaving others waiting

• The concept of the Behavioral Friction Audit and how it can transform community health programs

If you're a public health professional, healthcare leader, policymaker, educator, or student, this episode will challenge you to rethink how we design systems that truly work for the communities we serve.

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Part 4 of a special four-part series examining the relational foundations of population health.

What if the future of public health depends less on hospitals and more on relationships?

In Episode 20 of The Public Health Practice Gap, Dr. Bradley Fevrier concludes our special four-part series exploring empathy, trust, belonging, and the invisible systems that shape population health.

While healthcare systems continue investing billions in physical infrastructure, many of today's greatest public health challenges stem from something far less visible: the erosion of human infrastructure.

In this episode, we explore:• Why public health has always been an infrastructure discipline• The historical lessons of John Snow and environmental design• The transition from physical infrastructure to human infrastructure• The four pillars of human infrastructure: Empathy, Trust, Belonging, and Community• The risks of attempting to automate human connection through AI• How employers, healthcare systems, schools, and communities can rebuild social resilience• Why the next frontier of public health may be relational rather than technological

Modern public health faces a growing challenge. We know more about disease prevention than ever before, yet loneliness, burnout, distrust, and social fragmentation continue to rise.

The question is no longer simply how we improve healthcare systems. The question is how we rebuild the human systems that make health possible.

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