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Marsha Basloe
Marsha has spent most of her professional career in the field of education but it took decades to reach the conclusion that early childhood development—the years before elementary school—is the key to it all.
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Teresa Rubio and daughter Ana Baltazar
Teresa tries to guide her daughter, Ana, toward healthy choices – less bread and burgers, more vegetables. But busy parents can’t be with their children every minute of every day.
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Leadership Blog
An Unprecedented Reversal
by Alice M. Rivlin, Co-Chair
May 22, 2008
A recent study documents an unprecedented reversal over the past few decades in Americans’ life expectancy. For the first time in nearly a century, rather than increasing, life expectancy for women declined in 180 of the nation’s 3,000-plus counties.
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Building a Healthier America Starts with Healthy Choices in our Neighborhoods
by 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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Timely Moment to Seek Solutions
by David R. Williams, Ph.D., Staff Director
April 21, 2008
Solutions to the complex problem of improving health and reducing health disparities will not be simple, but this is a uniquely opportune time to seek them. Widespread recognition – by business, government, and the general public – that medical care costs must be brought under control creates a sense of urgency. Pervasive concerns about global economic competitiveness add to pressures not only to reduce medical care costs but to have a healthier and thus more economically productive workforce.
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