These world building prompts come from 3000 World Building Prompts, which you can get at Amazon. This section is focused on creating health systems.
- What is the average life expectancy of humans?
- Do people live long enough that they know their grandparents? Great grandparents? Parents?
- Do the poor have access to health care?
- Is there public or universal health care?
- Does health insurance exist?
- Are people required to have health insurance?
- Is health insurance affordable?
- How expensive is medical care?
- Is there life insurance?
- Is there long-term and short-term disability insurance?
- Do vaccines exist?
- If so, are they trusted and used or shunned?
- When was the last major pandemic? What percentage of the population died, and where?
- What was the most famous pandemic? Why was it famous?
- What are the names of the more well-known pandemics?
- If someone gets seriously injured or sick, is death likely?
- Does supernatural healing exist?
- If so, does that power come from the gods? Do people just believe it or is it true?
- What other sources of supernatural healing exist?
- What plants or animals have significant healing properties?
- Are they hard to gain?
- Are they hoarded?
- Do the rich control them?
- Which ones are most well-known?
- What side effects do they cause?
- Which ones have such serious side effects as to be feared?
- Do antidotes to poisons exist? Which ones?
- How rare is each antidote?
- How strong of a dose is needed?
- Have the concepts of germs and pathogens been discovered?
- Are they widely known to exist?
- Have sufficient preventive measures been put in place to prevent the spread of anything infectious?
- Are there areas ravaged by infectious elements?
- What areas produce new strains?
- What areas are rumored to produce new strains?
- Is bloodletting practiced?
- Do doctors believe in humors or something similar?
- Do doctors have patients do cures that are actually harmful but they don’t know it?
- How good are doctors?
- Are doctors widely trusted?
- How accurate is biological and medical knowledge?
- Is childbirth still deadly?
- Is birth control effective and available?
- Is it legal in some jurisdiction but not in others? Which ones?
- Can characters return from the dead?
- Can people be resuscitated?
- Is CPR known? Widely?
- Can characters be reincarnated?
- If so, how much of their memory do they keep?
- Are mental patients incarcerated and abused?
- Does psychology exist?
- If so, it is a mature field?
- Are there mental institutions?
- If so, are they dark and terrible places or clean and peaceful?
- Are there medications, technology, or magic spells that can help or cure, permanently or not, the mentally ill?
- Is mental illness well understood?
- Is mental illness shameful?
- Do people hide mental afflictions?
- Is suicide common?
- How are the suicidal treated?