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Disparities in health outcomes continue to be a significant problem in the United States. Many African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and the poor die at younger ages and in greater numbers from the most common causes of death than their middle-class and while counterparts. In order to help eliminate these dipartites in death and illness, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the Building a Culture of Health program, which along with its subsidiary, New Jersey Health...

Toxic stress is an urgent health crisis in our society. Though often hidden, toxic stress leads to huge increases in some of the top killers of our generation: hear disease, cancer, suicide, opioid addiction and more. But there is good news: Now we know just how harmful toxic stress is to our kids. So no we can do something about it, together. We can stop stressing perfection. And instead, stress what works. We can stop stressing appearances. And stress the science that is so compelling. We...