You Don’t Have Two Health States: Why 'Healthy' and 'Sick' Are Not Opposites
Feeling healthy is not necessarily the same as being healthy. In this thought-provoking article, Ekwy Onyekwele, Founder and CEO of The White Coat, examines why preventive healthcare must move beyond the traditional distinction between 'healthy' and 'sick' to embrace health intelligence - longitudinal health monitoring and biomarker tracking. By examining how conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and kidney disease can develop silently over time, Ekwy argues that healthcare systems must become better at identifying biological changes before they cross diagnostic thresholds. For Nigeria, this means building a more proactive model of preventive healthcare based on personal health baselines, diagnostic data, risk-based screening and continuous monitoring.
