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Death’s Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City

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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.

Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City

A Sense of Urgency About Health Disparities in the Trump Era

By Ruth Ford | January 4, 2017

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.

Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City

What Drives NYC’s Health Disparities?

By Janaki Chadha and Ruth Ford | January 4, 2017

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

Hospital Closures and Medicaid Shifts Took Toll on NYC’s Health

By Ruth Ford | January 4, 2017

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

Residents’ Resiliency Offers Hope for Better Health in Brownsville

By Ruth Ford | January 4, 2017

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

Could City Parks Help Close Health Disparities?

By Janaki Chadha | January 4, 2017

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

Running for Change in Brownsville

By Ruth Ford | January 4, 2017

A group of women runners is piling up the miles and tearing down stereotypes.

Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City

Private: What Kills NYers: Mapping Leading Causes of Death

By Jarrett Murphy | January 4, 2017

How heart disease, accidents, diabetes, HIV, cancer, pneumonia, suicide, homicide, drug overdoses and affect neighborhoods from Battery Park to Brownsville.

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