September 2022

Contemporary approaches to healthy living, with an increasing attentiveness to social determinants of health and the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being, hold potential — even real promise — to provide us with longer and greater-quality lives, especially through our later years. Focusing and sustaining meaningful action in support of that potential — that promise — requires a broader perspective on healthy aging and an open and inclusive conversation on the subject.

The post describes how Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network, a Healthy People 2030 Champion, contributed to progress towardHealthy People 2020 objectives—as well as Healthy People 2030 objectives in the social determinants of health domain Health Care Access and Quality.