Place Matters for Health in Bernalillo County: A Report on Health Inequities
- Author: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
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- Format: Written Document
Place matters for health in important ways. Differences in neighborhood conditions powerfully predict who is
healthy, who is sick,and who lives longer. And because of patterns of residential segregation, these
differences in neighborhood conditions are the fundamental causes of health inequities found among different
racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
This study examined the relationships between place, ethnicity, and health in Bernalillo County, N.M.