4sight Health December 20, 2022
Oakley Square Apartments is a residential complex that borders the Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s west side. In his 2017 book, Dr. David Ansell coined the term “death gap” to describe the sixteen-year difference in life expectancy between individuals living in Garfield Park and those living just six miles east in the downtown Chicago Loop. Garfield Park’s life expectancy is only 69 years. In the Loop, it’s 85 years.
As a physician practicing in Garfield Park, Ansell witnessed the conditions that trigger the neighborhood’s low life expectancy. Pervasive inequality was the causal factor underlying the dismal health status metrics. Compared to those living in the Loop, Garfield Park residents are two times more likely to die of cancer, four times...
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