On June 29th policymakers, nonprofit organization heads and leaders in the health care field gathered at the Boston Foundation to discuss a new report on health in Massachusetts— the product of a continuing partnership between the Foundation and the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI). The report, called Healthy People in a Healthy Economy A Blueprint for Action in Massachusetts, is the second researched and written by NEHI with foundation support. It contains an action planto combat the findings of the previous report, published in 2007 and titled The Boston Paradox: Lots of Health Care, Not Enough Health, which focused on the growing crisis of preventable chronic disease.

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