Health Affairs October 25, 2017
In the United States today, a person’s ability to live a healthy life is dramatically affected by where he or she lives. Someone’s subway stop or neighborhood block can mean the difference between living like it’s 2017 or 1917.
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Internal Medicine recently released a study that found a county where a person resides can make as much of an impact on their heath as other factors, such as ethnicity and genetics. A person’s zip code can determine how easy it is to access healthy foods, the ability to walk and bike safely, and the ability to be safe from violence and exposures to environmental hazards.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
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