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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is advocating for a healthier America by proposing bills to support local and regional farming, improve food access and nutrition, and reduce pesticide use, while ...
The home to the University of Virginia, it wins above-average scores across the board on all health and well-being factors. Population: around 43,000. Well-being score: 71.1.
And that’s a big part of your financial health. The reality is households of Americans ages 35 to 44 had a median retirement account balance of $45,000 in 2022, per the Federal Reserve.
Healthy community design is planning and designing communities that make it easier for people to live healthy lives. [1] Healthy community design offers important benefits: [ citation needed ] Decreases dependence on the automobile by building homes, businesses, schools, churches and parks closer to each other so that people can more easily ...
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
Direct health care costs of asthma totaled more than $14.7 billion in 2008. [ 10 ] $5 billion annually in indirect costs, primarily from lost productivity, can be added to the total. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , [ 11 ] almost 13 million lost school days, 4 million asthma attacks and nearly 4,000 deaths yearly ...
Story at a glance A new analysis finds Washington, Massachusetts, Utah and Vermont are the healthiest states in the nation. In contrast, states concentrated in the southeastern region of the U.S ...
The Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit was released during Leadership for Healthy Communities' 2009 Childhood Obesity Prevention Summit in Washington, D.C. The toolkit is a collection of policy options and resources designed to help state and local policy-makers prevent childhood obesity by developing healthier ...