Measuring the Health of the Public

(...) Echoing the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, the report also calls for increased federal focus on the non-clinical factors that we know affect how healthy we are such as access to affordable, healthy foods; safe places for children to exercise; and access to high-quality education. The authors of the report recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) develop and implement a standardized, core set of community health indicators that reflect these critical social determinants of health and enable true comparisons from one jurisdiction to another.