Unhealthy America

Unhealthy America

A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the complex issues underlying profound differences in the health of Americans, and recommends that as a nation, we prioritize investment in America's youngest children, significantly shifting spending and major initiatives to ensure families and communities build a strong foundation in the early years. This includes creating stronger standards for early childhood programs, linking funding to program quality, and guaranteeing access for all low-income children under age 5 by 2025. We also must help parents who struggle to provide healthy, nurturing experiences for their children, and fundamentally change how we revitalize neighborhoods, fully integrating health into community development by supporting and speeding the integration of finance, health, and community development. We must establish incentives and performance measures to spur collaborative approaches to building healthy and resilient communities, and replicate promising, integrated models. And we must take a more health-focused approach to health-care financing and delivery, broadening mindset, mission, and incentives for health professionals and institutions beyond treating illness toward facilitating healthy lives. We must adopt new "vital signs" to assess nonmedical indicators for health, and create incentives tied to reimbursement for health professionals and institutions to address nonmedical factors affecting health. Finally, we must incorporate nonmedical health measures into community health-needs assessments. More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP) is an education support organization that works as a collaborative partner in high-poverty communities.

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