Commission to Build a Healthier America

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Slideshow

Publisher: RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America
Published: 6/25/2009

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America believes that there is more to good health than health care. After intensive study and debate, the Commission issued 10 recommendations that identify how to enable Americans, particularly those who face the greatest barriers to good health, to lead healthy lives. This slideshow details the Commission’s recommendations and provides data to help us better understand how social factors like education, income, work, housing, community, early life experiences, and race and ethnicity affect the health of all Americans.

Commission to Build a Healthier America

A group of 14 American leaders charged with investigating why Americans aren’t as healthy as they could be and to recommend ways beyond medical care to improve health in years, not decades.

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