What Do We Absolutely Need? (fourth in a series)

February 19, 2009 by David Eggleton

This series is to stimulate visions of new niches in the local economy. It's addressed to people with businesses and to enterprising people not yet in business.

There is always a market in a locale for the goods and services that satisfy fundamental human needs. Following are the World Health Organization's Prerequisites for Health:

- peace
- shelter
- education
- food
- income
- a stable ecosystem
- sustainable resources
- social justice and equity

"Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites." -- The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986)

You could offer a service or services in and around Woburn that would help renew and/or maintain such a foundation. Having a local focus, it could be superior in important ways to one-size-fits-all solutions from more capital intensive and ambitious entities based elsewhere.