Will you join JALSA in supporting food justice and environmental health by signing onto the Prevention Trust?

Through JALSA’s work on food and the connection between safe environments and healthy families, one thing has become clear.  Insurers, providers and the state need to invest in prevention programs that will increase availability of healthy sustainable food, improve air quality, and increase opportunities for exercise and access to green spaces.  These measures will help prevent disease before it starts, ensuring healthier communities and lower health care costs for all of us.

Below is information about a sign-on letter urging the state to invest in prevention measures as part of Health Care Cost Control.   They need clergy, business, municipal, academic and health care leaders to sign on.  Will you?

Email jalsaoffice@gmail.com or follow this link to sign onto the letter.
Look below for more information and content of the letter:

This effort is being led jointly by Massachusetts Public Health Association, Health Care for All, Health Resources in Action, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
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Dear President Murray and Speaker DeLeo:

In the past several months, we have heard a growing chorus of leaders calling for the Commonwealth to move forward with legislation to reform our system of health care payment. As you determine the next steps the Massachusetts legislature will take to advance the health of our residents, the undersigned organizations and individuals urge that as you move forward, you will enact legislation that ultimately promotes prevention and wellness by integrating health promotion and the prevention of disease into the fundamental mechanisms of our health care payment system. We urge you to seize this opportunity to make community-based prevention a priority in the way that the Commonwealth pays for the health of our residents. Read more…