American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
It isn’t unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that’s just a few blocks away. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
We all have to learn how to reengineer healthy living back into our lives. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural – the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
What is Medicaid all about? It’s staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
