ROI/Payback

Q. Why should state & federal governments and private health plans & providers be interested in investing in schools?

A. Because clinical settings and other approaches have not improved health behavior enough to prevent chronic diseases and to control health costs at the scale needed.

In spite of the constant admonitions of doctors & nurses, not to mention pervasive TV, clickbait & social media health advice, few adults permanently change their unhealthy lifestyles.  Instead, they are dependent on lifelong drug prescriptions and other “disease management” care—at very high cost to themselves and others.