The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America will look beyond the medical care system to investigate how factors such as education, environment, income, housing and personal health choices impact the health of all Americans and ultimately provide better opportunities for Americans in every community to grow up and stay healthy. Even with decades of effort to improve America’s health care system, too many Americans still die earlier than they should, and too many are suffering from conditions that can be prevented.
At the end of this two-year effort, the Commission will recommend viable short- and long-term strategies to help improve the health of all Americans.
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LEADERSHIP BLOGS
Healthy Children: Earlier Rather than Later
Carole Simpson,
Commissioner
June 5, 2008
“Better earlier than later.” How often have we heard that expression? Whether the phrase is applied to the detection of disease, applying for jobs, or taking a flight at peak travel times, early action is key.
Child development experts in this country have been saying that with regards to children--aged birth to five--for the past 40 years.
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Building a Healthier America Starts with Healthy Choices in our Neighborhoods
Angela Glover Blackwell,
Commissioner
May 21, 2008
Can Americans be truly healthy in communities overstuffed with fast-food and soda-and-chip corner stores? An important new study says, “Not likely.”
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The Farrington And Singleton Families
Beginning at even the youngest ages, the educational, social and other opportunities that children have are strongly linked to their health later in life. Although worlds apart in many respects, two North Carolina families both credit their children's experiences in the same Chapel Hill preschool with providing not only the skills in reading and writing that prepare them for kindergarten, but also the motor and social skills that are also critical for succeeding in school.
Meet The Farrington And Singleton Families
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