Despite being on average more economically advantaged, American students consistently score lower on standardized tests than students in other developed countries. Many mistakenly attribute this finding to the idea that children living in poverty or other distressed environments drag the average score down but that middle or upper class students are some of the best…
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A new paper out of the the journal Health Affairs exams how the mortality rate (the number of deaths per persons) of United States counties has changed between 1992 to 2006. The authors found that nearly half (42.8%) of all counties had a higher mortality rate among women in 2006 than they had in 1992. …
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
Ann Davison is the Managing Director with VOXGLOBAL, a communications firm in Washington D.C. that is working with CHN on our Education and Health Initiative. In this guest-post, she provides insight into the factors that influence today’s classroom and how that can impact the future of public health. Decades ago as I sat in my…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
Every spring for the past four years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin has released data on the health of each county in the United States. The County Health Rankings, in addition to providing data on health outcomes and behaviors, ranks each county in every state from the…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…