U.S. Scorecard For Health proposed

Valerie Fleishman, executive director of the New England Healthcare Institute and Paul S. Grogan, president and CEO of The Boston Foundation discuss the concept in an article on the WBUR website:

• despite having one of the highest rates of health spending and some of the best doctors and hospitals in the world, Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of chronic disease in the US;
• hard costs: half the state's population is overweight; 1 in 5 adults, 1 in 3 children are obese - costing $1.4 billion annually on obesity-related health care, and $34 billion for chronic care and lost productivity;
• they want to introduce a new scorecard for health that will assess physical activity in schools, access to healthy foods, incentives for wellness and community engagement;
• health and wellness is now in the pop culture mainstream thanks in part to the crusades of personalities like First Lady Michelle Obama and chef Jamie Oliver;
• tackling the core issues that affect health and wellness will require all hands on deck: communities, schools, governments, employers, insurers, physicians, the food industry and the media
• TBF and NEHI have designed a scorecard that will measure the effectiveness of the coalition’s prevention efforts against the goals of fostering healthy weight, reducing preventable chronic illness and, ultimately, achieving better value for our health care dollars.

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Posted by: gisela on 2010-06-16 18:16:53

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