Young, Old
Rich, Poor
Male, Female
Newborn, Infirmed
No matter the race, the gender, the income or position, no issue matters more than our personal health, but rarely do we look at the health of the community as a whole.
Information is hard to find. How does our community compare to others? Where can we improve? What can we do as consumers, employers, insurers and health care providers, to improve the health of our children and families?
United Auto Workers, and the Ford Motor Company sponsors of the Greater Kansas City Health Care Initiative, in May 2000 presented the study to the community a comprehensive health assessment. The Initiative has a simple, but ambitious goal: to improve the overall health status of the Kansas City area community.
The Initiative has produced the most comprehensive assessment of this community’s overall health ever made, and provided it to the community for reference, review and response. It presumes that diverse groups – providers, consumers, labor unions, purchasers, insurers, public health and other government agencies, elected officials, philanthropic organizations, and the media – can all collaboratively use the information to identify health–related issues, challenges and opportunities that are worthy of our community’s attention and action.
In this web presentation, all interested parties are invited to review the Initiative’s data.