From Farmers' Markets To Soda Tax, Coalition Aims To Make State National Wellness Leader

CommonHealth
November 30, 2010

...We spend too much money on sickness and not enough on staying healthy. To parse it: 50% of how healthy you are depends on your own behavior. But only 4% of health care spending goes toward “healthy behaviors;” the system sits back while you gain weight or smoke or fail to exercise, then pours money into treating the chronic illnesses that may result...

A new coalition is taking aim at those numbers. Just announced at the Massachusetts State House, it is called “Healthy People/Healthy Economy,” and includes a broad, anybody-who’s-anybody swath of players, from legislators to health insurers to business leaders to public health officials to The Boston Foundation, which is spearheading the project.

Link to Full Article: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2010/11/wellness-coalition/