Americans have fewer healthy days, more disparity in health outcomes, CDC data show

Health equity witnessed a “clear lack of progress” during a recent 25-year period, researchers recently wrote in JAMA Network Open.
“Health equity is an often-cited goal of public health, included among the four overarching goals of the [HHS] Healthy People 2020. Yet it is difficult to find summary assessments of national progress toward this goal,” wrote Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD, and Nathaniel W. Anderson, BA, of the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Using data from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk

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