Health, Nutrition and Healthcare Availability (NVP 2013, Report 2)

Jun 18, 2014
  • Description

With support and collaboration from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation through the America Healing initiative, researchers at the University of Michigan are leading the National Voices Project (NVP) from 2011-2016. The central goals of the NVP are to examine the sources of racial/ethnic inequity and other disparities for children in the United States today and identify interventions that address disparities effectively.

The NVP offers an unprecedented perspective on community-level opportunities for children throughout the country, in the domains of health and nutrition, education and learning, and economic security – through the eyes of adults whose occupations and volunteer work affect such opportunities. In other words, the NVP reflects the perceptions of individuals throughout the United States who are in a position to improve children's opportunities in the future. We generally use the word ― children throughout the report to describe children from age 0-18 years, unless otherwise noted.

Report #2 for NVP 2013 focuses on opportunities for health and nutrition and availability of healthcare.