Can Education and Money Buy Your Health?

Can Education and Money Buy Your Health?

This may be odd to suggest that you can “buy your health,” but ask some folks in Florida. According to the following Florida Times Union article, the state’s southern most counties experience better health than those in northern Florida. They also have more college-educated adults with higher incomes, more assets and access to primary care providers. If that isn’t enough, South Floridians also exhibit healthier behaviors (drink less, smoke less) than most. If education and money is indeed the key to healthier, longer living, are those without doomed from the start?

Highlighted Clip for Friday, April 22, 2011:
"Our health is often in our own hands"

One key factor identified by a study titled "Map of Child Well-Being," is living in an isolated, high-poverty neighborhood.
This study was produced by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University for the Jacksonville Children's Commission.