The high costs of poor health are sown in childhood

Obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, alcoholism, smoking and drug use, depression, adolescent pregnancy and high blood pressure: these are the modern plagues that will “determine the trajectory of our future health care costs in Rhode Island,” said Catherine Walsh, the deputy director of Rhode Island Kids Count. More

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