In a new report released today, the Center on Society and Health and the Urban Institute provide detailed information on how states differ on measures of longevity, and how those measures of longevity are connected to dozens of potential drivers of health. For example, life expectancy varies more than 6 years across the states, from…
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In a new report, released today, the Center on Society and Health and the Urban Institute show how states rank on dozens of health outcomes, highlighting where they are doing well and areas in which they need improvement. Perhaps most importantly, the data also provide detailed information about more than 100 potential drivers of these…
New life expectancy maps, released by the Center on Society and Health on December 2, 2015, illustrate that opportunities to lead a long and healthy life can vary dramatically by neighborhood in the cities of Denver, Phoenix, and Tulsa. In Denver, if you travel 10 miles down I-25 from Globeville to Washington Park, life expectancy…
New maps released today by the Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) illustrate that opportunities to lead a long and healthy life can vary dramatically across North Carolina. Along the mostly rural stretch of U.S. Rte. 64 that leads west from Martin County to Wake County, life expectancy can differ by as much…
The greater one’s income, the lower one’s likelihood of disease and premature death. Americans at all income levels are less healthy than those with higher incomes. Not only is income associated with better health, but wealth affects health as well. Though it is easy to imagine how health is tied to income for the very…
Can we spend less on health by investing in education? Americans without a high school diploma are living sicker, shorter lives than they did in the 1990s, and spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid is expected to steadily rise each year over the next decade. A new set of policy briefs released today explores…
A short distance can lead to a large difference in life expectancy. This is the focus of the Center’s life expectancy mapping project, a study that illustrates through media-friendly maps the vastly different health outcomes experienced by Americans living just a few miles apart. On March 4, 2015, the Center released the first in a…
Quality health care is necessary to improve the health of disadvantaged populations – but it is not enough to eliminate the adverse effects of limited education, says a new policy brief. Released last week by the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health, the brief features new Kaiser Permanente data and is supported…
The links between education and health are complex, and tied closely to income and to the opportunities people have to lead healthy lives in their communities says a new policy brief and video released today by the VCU Center on Society and Health, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The brief and video…
Following up on progress made since its initial recommendations were released in 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Commission to Build a Healthier America released its 2014 recommendations today in an online event broadcast from Washington, DC. The Commission’s 2009 recommendations called for breaking down conventional policy-making silos; arguing that health is shaped greatly…