Stories
Ana Barrios and May Caudillo
It’s not easy being 11. Teachers don’t let you speak your native Spanish, older kids try to lure you into gangs and then there are those pesky siblings, prone to hogging closet space and the family laptop.
Sometimes the best thing to do is just go for a run.
Meet Ana Barrios and May Caudillo
The Elkins' Family
Sheryl and Dean Elkins have spent most of their lives in Oak Hill, West Virginia, where Dean works as a volunteer fire fighter and helps his father run the family printing business. Sheryl is a stay-at-home mom caring for their autistic son, Keith, and caring for her aging mother and aunt. Learn how two generations of this American family have worked hard and struggled to be healthy in a place where obstacles to health abound.
Meet The Elkins' Family
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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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Enabling America to Reach its Full Health Potential
by Mark McClellan, Co-Chair
February 28, 2008
Improving health by improving education, housing, job opportunities, and neighborhoods sounds like an enormous undertaking. But I am engaged in this Commission because I am convinced, now more than ever, that there are promising solutions that exist out there.
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