Health: Family Matters - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com: "We tend to think of health as a private blessing, sickness as a solitary curse, but the truth isn't nearly so simple�either for kids or for adults. 'The myth is that health is all about individual choices and individual treatments,' says Dr. Robert Ferrer of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio. 'But we're embedded in families and communities, and they have a big effect on our options.' "...family history is not written in DNA alone. Household income is an equally strong health predictor, and not just because wealth buys more medicine. ...
More wealth means more autonomy, less stress and more opportunities for social participation." No one knows exactly how those factors get translated into lower rates of AIDS, obesity and heart disease, but the effects can be dramatic. Life expectancy is some 20 years greater in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, than in downtown Washington, D.C.
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