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1 Introduction
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... : 1. Facilitating a population health orientation and perspective among public health practitioners, health care leaders, and educators; 2.
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... He explained that since 2013, the roundtable has provided a trusted venue for leaders from various sectors to meet and discuss opportunities for achieving better population health, including increasing life expectancy, improving quality of life, and reducing health disparities. The roundtable's vision of a healthy and productive society that cultivates human capital and equal opportunity rests on a recognition that the positive outcomes in such a society are "shaped by interdependent social, economic, environ­ mental, genetic, behavioral, and health care factors and will require robust national and community-level policy change and dependable resources to achieve it." There have been three previous roundtable workshops dedicated to exploring the relationship between health and education, as well as a recent National Academies consensus study, resulting in the report The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth (NASEM, 2019)
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... The first gave an overview of the core developmental processes of middle schoolers, health risks, and protective factors, as well as opportunities for achieving equity within the educational system. The next presentation, by Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf, described two programs addressing health in Oakland and the need for collaboration within and outside government to effect change.


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