Americans without a high school diploma are living sicker, shorter lives than ever before, and the links between education and health matter more now than they have in the past, says a new policy brief and video released today by the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation….
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has updated its DC-Metro life expectancy map and has included maps for other areas based on data produced by the Center’s Place Matters study. The maps give a clear example of how life expectancy differs within a small geographic area and how even though we attribute so much of…
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…
I have recently spoken a lot with reporters in my capacity as chair of the National Research Council-Institute of Medicine panel, which in January released its recent report on the U.S. health disadvantage. The report, The U.S. Health Disadvantage in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, delivered some stunning news: Americans at all ages up…
Funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Engaging Richmond is a community-university partnership that was formed to identify social factors that influence the health of residents living in Richmond’s East End. Based on focus group information gathered from approximately 195 participants, including men, women, parents, caregivers, elderly, homeless, employed and unemployed, many…