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Affordable housing represents an essential platform and opportunity to address in our inner cities and rural areas the needs of populations with some of the greatest health risks. Will the…

ByLawrence Soler 0Comments

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Jan 2017

Health

Could City Parks Help Close Health Disparities?

Open space can help promote health—but only if the programming and perceptions are in place to make people feel comfortable using it.

ByJanaki Chadha 0Comments

04

Jan 2017

Uncategorized

Running for Change in Brownsville

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

ByRuth Ford 18Comments

04

Jan 2017

Health

Residents’ Resiliency Offers Hope for Better Health in Brownsville

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…

ByRuth Ford 1Comment

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Jan 2017

Health In Depth Investigations

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

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…

ByRuth Ford 16Comments

04

Jan 2017

Health In Depth Investigations

What Drives NYC’s Health Disparities?

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 –…

ByJanaki Chadha

ByRuth Ford 6Comments

04

Jan 2017

Health In Depth Investigations

A Sense of Urgency About Health Disparities in the Trump Era

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…

ByRuth Ford 0Comments

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Dec 2016

Economy Health

Volatile Mix of Risks Confronts Kids in City’s Most Vulnerable Neighborhoods

Ranking the city’s community districts according to how many obstacles their children face reveals that many neighborhoods face multiple threats while others show a combination of progress and new perils.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2016

Health Opinion

Building Justice: Genetic Code, ZIP Code and Housing Code All Affect Health and Equality

Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.

ByAmanda Reddy

ByDavid Jacobs 2Comments

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Sep 2016

Health Uncategorized