Gaps in life expectancy between wealthy and poor New York City neighborhoods have grown over the past decade, driven by old problems, new pressures and changes to how healthcare is delivered.
The question isn’t whether economic alienation and housing pressure are as risky to health as smoking or poor diet. It’s whether the political will is there to do something about it.
Diabetes and assaults, HIV and asthma, sicken or kill people in low-income areas at higher rates. Often, it isn’t that there’s no method or money to address the problem – it’s that we spend it in the wrong place.
For families living in poor neighborhoods, more hospital closings have put greater pressure on the surviving facilities, and they have also stretched the distances people have to travel to receive care.
Surveys show people in neighborhoods hit hard by health disparities are full of ideas of how to solve them—at a time when the healthcare system is embracing some experimentation. Will the brainstorming and bucks meet?
Open space can help promote health—but only if the programming and perceptions are in place to make people feel comfortable using it.
A group of women runners is piling up the miles and tearing down stereotypes.
How heart disease, accidents, diabetes, HIV, cancer, pneumonia, suicide, homicide, drug overdoses and affect neighborhoods from Battery Park to Brownsville.
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