Public Health Needs in Spotlight: state scores low on wellness issues; report card to be released today

The Boston Globe
July 19, 2011

Massachusetts is a national leader in providing access to health care, but when it comes to prevention programs that help people avoid the doctor’s office by leading a healthy lifestyle, the state has plenty of room for improvement...the Boston Foundation, one of the largest community foundations in the country, and NEHI, a nonprofit health policy institute based in Cambridge, scored the state on 14 areas of public health. The state earned no A’s and five B’s, recognizing efforts to build walking paths and bike lanes, promote farmers’ markets, and encourage workplace health program.

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