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First Annual Report Card | 2011
Health care costsas a percentage of U.S.
GDP have DOUBLED
Crisis: from 1980 to
2010
Source: UCSF, NEHI
Spending Mismatch
$2.5 trillion
between health determinants and health expenditures
Massachusetts Spending Imbalance
Net Change, Fiscal Years 2001-2011
Percentage Overweight & Obese Residents
Massachusetts, 1995 and 2010
Response: Diverse Coalition
Build a
of Massachusetts leaders
Report Card:
What need
is it? And why do we
it?
To turn the tide we need:
many initiatives,
multiple partners across sectors and a way to
measure progress
KEY TO REPORT CARD GRADES
A Positive Change Throughout the Commonwealth Appropriate policies, programs and practices are not only in place, they are driving positive change
B A Good Start Innovative or best practice polices are now in place and could drive positive change
C A Start Innovative or best practice policies are under active and serious consideration or are part of promising demo projects, and could drive positive change
D Barely a Start Appropriate policies to address major health problems are only to receive active and serious consideration
F No Progress Appropriate policies are not receiving active and serious
consideration, despite advocacy
I Incomplete Policy or programmatic activity is at a very early or experimental stage
Physical Activity
Physical Activity
DYouth Physical Activity
Biking & Walking
Healthy Transportation Design & Planning
B
B
Access to Healthy Foods
Farmers Markets
Food Deserts
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Healthy School Meals
Trans Fat Policy
BD
F
CD
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
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Physical Activity
Health & Wellness Investments
BEmployee Health Promotion
Public Health Funding
Primary Care
FC
Physical Activity
Citizen Education & Engagement
Health Literacy
School-based BMI Reporting
Health Impact Assessments
IBD
Physical Activity
Next Steps
A focused policy agenda designed to
transform the environment through
best policies and practices.
We hope YOU will JOIN US.