Boosting Health in Everyone’s Hometown

Reader Contribution by Jay Walljasper
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Good health means more than good medical care.

Many other things affect how long we live and how healthy we feel — including conditions in our housing and neighborhoods, the social and physical environment of our communities, economic opportunities and the levels of stress in our lives. According to a landmark University of Wisconsin study, the state of our overall health is attributable to four major factors:

• 20 percent – access to and quality of clinical health care
• 40 percent – social and economic factors in our lives

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