<p style=background: white;>This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology behavior social-cultural circumstances the environment and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes workplaces and communities. Special awareness is paid to health disparities among individuals families groups regions and nations. The author discusses how health of individual families influences our local national and global communities. <em>Families and Health</em> argues that family health is not a privilege for the few but a personal national and global right and responsibility.</p>