Tennessee is a great place to live. But we’re less healthy than the rest of the country, and that hurts our economy. If you’re familiar with our work at The Sycamore Institute (examples below), you’ve heard this before.
Today, however, we’re doing something new. We boiled down multiple studies, reports, and policy briefs into a single, 2.5 minute video. Watch it below.
The connection between health and prosperity is important, but not always widely known. So please, share this video with your family, friends, and colleagues.
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Related Work by The Sycamore Institute
- The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease in Tennessee
- The Drivers of Health: 4 Factors that Influence Individual and Population Health
- 95 County Health Profiles
- 5 Ways Public Policy Impacts Health
- How Socioeconomic Factors Affect Health in Tennessee
- 3 Ways Tennesseans’ Poor Health Hurts Our Economy & Workforce Development
Data Sources
Leading Causes of Death
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2016. WONDER Online Database. 2017. Accessed via http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html.
Health Outcomes
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 2017. Accessed via https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/.
Drivers of Health
- McGovern, Laura, Miller, George and Hughes-Cromwick, Paul. Health Policy Brief: The Relative Contributions of Multiple Determinants to Health Outcomes. Health Affairs. August 21, 2014. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20140821.404487/full/
- U.S. Census Bureau. 2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. 2017. Accessed via https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data.html.
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 2017. Accessed via https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/.
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. SA1 Personal Income Summary: Personal Income, Population, Per Capita Personal Income. Updated September 26, 2017. Accessed via https://www.bea.gov/itable/.
Economic Cost of Chronic Disease
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2015 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 2016. Accessed via https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/.
- Melton, Courtnee and Pellegrin, Mandy. The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease in Tennessee. The Sycamore Institute. November 15, 2017. https://www.sycamoreinstitutetn.org/cost-chronic-disease-tennessee/
