Kennedy Maha movement on chronic diseases: Battle Over Priories

Washington – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a deadline for the White House this week. His Make America Healthy Again commission must make a diagnosis of the country’s chronic disease epidemic. At the end of the summer, he will have to offer solutions.

Between the two comes the battle on priorities. Should the commission be all all about obesity? Focusing on the fastest increase would be a reasonable approach, but it would do the same on the most sick parts in the country or on the risk factors shared by many diseases. It might seem pressing, in the United States era, to assume the conditions that cost the nation the most, but it would also be logical to make more money in efforts to prevention of underfalling diseases for a long time.

The epidemic takes a different tone and tenor depending on what you are focusing on and where you are looking at. If you were at the Commission, what priorities would you choose?

Stat has gathered and analyzed various sources of health data accessible to the public to establish a base of chronic diseases in the United States, finding appropriate and complete data on the prevalence and costs of chronic disease is an urgent concern for decision-makers, but remains a challenge. To fill this gap, Stat has carried out original statistical analyzes, generating new data points on a wide range of diseases and their consequences. This survey – which has used annual data on the survey on the Agency for the Research and Health Care Agency’s medical expenses committee – could help political researchers and decision -makers to better understand the problems that the nation is faced.

Below, we exhibit this overview, as well as nine sets of different priorities to give the public – and the commission – a chance to decide what they think is most important, and therefore what solutions make sense.