Resumen de Healing Kansas.
The article discusses the County Health Rankings project, the goal of which is to offer enhancements in education, access to nutritious food, and increased economic opportunities to potentially improve the health and well being of the people who live in Wyandotte County, Kansas. The project ranks behavioral, clinical, socioeconomic and environmental factors to identify patterns of behavior and illness in communities and foster change in government policy and planning. Although not all Kansas officials agree with the results, researcher Julio Willems Van Dijk says health effects that were once associated with racial differences can be connected to educational and economic differences.
