Table 1.

The challenges, agents and learning: Society and not the physician is now the linchpin!

Where are the root causes of the challenges that LL must address?
Examples of factors determining the state of society, individuals and their health
The state of the individual in society	Governmentality
	Fears
	Knowledge from the Internet
	Restlessness
	Hierarchies between skilled and unskilled workers, etc.
The state of society and its environment	Stubbornness (regarding the pre-constructed) vs. responsiveness to the effervescent environment
	Warring capacity
	Polluting capacity, etc.
The state of society’s health	Dependence on: complex structures for disease detection and health delivery that simultaneously generate new disease.
	Love of technology, etc.
Curative agents
Prime movers	Physicians (currently unaware of fields outside their narrow focus)
Colluding agents	Society (which does not normally think rationally about health)
	Physical and emotional environments
Teachers, learning modes and opportunities that societies can provide
Teachers
Society, University, workplace	Learning achieved through: Immersion in society’s culture, formal University/other courses and informal on-the-job learning
Learning modes
Vicarious, autopoietic, heutagogic, authentic [9], reflexive	Learning achieved through: Imbibing society’s culture; Internet, social media, and balance between work and life
Formal and informal	Learning achieved through: University and workplace