America's Health Starts With Healthy Children

Posted on January 7, 2009

How does our social, economic and physical environment affect our health? And how close are our kids to reaching "optimal health"? A new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation chartbook looks at children from different socioeconomic backgrounds in every state to document how healthy our nation's children are now and how healthy they could be -- if we as a nation were realizing our full health potential. Where the biggest gaps are may surprise you.