Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Running for Change in Brownsville
Ruth Ford |
A group of women runners is piling up the miles and tearing down stereotypes.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Could City Parks Help Close Health Disparities?
Janaki Chadha |
Open space can help promote health—but only if the programming and perceptions are in place to make people feel comfortable using it.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Residents’ Resiliency Offers Hope for Better Health in Brownsville
Ruth Ford |
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?
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Hospital Closures and Medicaid Shifts Took Toll on NYC’s Health
Ruth Ford |
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.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
What Drives NYC’s Health Disparities?
Janaki Chadha and Ruth Ford |
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.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
A Sense of Urgency About Health Disparities in the Trump Era
Ruth Ford |
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.
