This is an opening post for Human Variability. A key proposition here is that all of human interactions as self, others, and environments – built and natural – are characterized by continuous, dynamic variability. Humans have evolved, biologically and socially to survive, reproduce and thrive in that context of continuous change. A corollary proposition then is that we persist, we are viable, not just by resilience or resistance, though we can do both — but because our persistence is by means of interacting fully with change, of leveraging change, initiating change, redirecting change.
This site seeks to share and build, apply and implement, an integrated view of human variability. Physiological variability will include, for example, Heart Rate Variability Dynammics, Respiratory Rate variability, temperature curve complexity, blood pressure variability. Psychological variability is understood with such measures as emotional regulation, alexithymia, depression, sense of coherence (SOC-13). The work here includes how to integrate such markers.
To paraphrase Merleau-Ponty we do not just inhabit the context of change – we haunt it. Change is not the name for a niche imposed upon us — but the niches we co-create and sustain.
The implications of continuous dynamic variability include indications for how to most usefully conceptualize humans and measure our interactions – here for purposes of healthcare improvement. The dynamics of human existence call for dynamic analytics.
Another corollary is that the continuous variability of humans is integrated and coherent, appropriate and timely. That concept will help guide and illuminate the conceptual and methodological discussions here and how to think about design and implementation of pragmatic projects and programs to improve clinical care and healthcare services.
Human Variability 