Where do we need to start to improve health across the lifespan? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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The vast majority of kids in the US go to school, and CDC director Mandy Cohen, at a recent Johns Hopkins talk, says these are very important places to start to set up people for a healthy lifestyle throughout their lives.

Cohen: Schools are such an important space for us to make sure we're thinking about health and well-being, where are those lifelong patterns of health? They start when we're young. Importantly the teachers have a big job to do already in educating our students so the simple things that we can do to make sure that they're flagging things that might be of concern and then to hand those off to folks with more training, expertise. Best when we can do that embedded in a school to make it easy in terms of access. We have a guide for schools on youth mental health to give folks the skills that they need.   :33

Cohen notes that all CDC resources are available online. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.