We believe these voices can profoundly reshape how policy makers and healthcare professionals approach these major problems. Using digital tools, we share Southerners’ personal insights about their own health and why they think health care challenges exist in their communities. In order to develop more effective interventions to save and improve lives, health care professionals need the stories that people themselves have to tell. We know that health outcomes vary across the state, by race, class, gender, and region, but the quantitative measures we have cannot always explain enough about why. Patterns of mobility and migration deeply shape North Carolina residents’ access to medical resources, their treatment at the hands of medical professionals, and their ability to engage effectively in their own health promotion. Stories to Save Lives seeks to bring the powerful research methodology of oral history to bear on one of the critical issues facing our region: healthcare.
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