Policy Points:

• Interventions in a regional system with intertwined threats and costs
  should address those threats that have the strongest, quickest, and most
  pervasive cross-impacts.
• Instead of focusing on an individual county’s apparent shortcomings,
  a regional intervention portfolio can yield greater results when it is
  designed to counter those systemic threats, especially poverty and inadequate social support, that most undermine health and well-being
  virtually everywhere.
• Likewise, efforts to reduce smoking, addiction, and violent crime and to
  improve routine care, health insurance, and youth education are important for most counties to unlock both short- and long-term potential.

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