How well you live depends a lot on where you live.
Two studies released by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies this week reveal that segregation continues to play an important role in health inequities, and concentrated poverty has increased the number of people in high poverty neighborhoods by nearly 5 million.
The reports, "A Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisis of the 2000s" and "Segregated Spaces, Risky Places: The Effects of Racial Segregation on Health Inequalities," were released at the Joint Center’s “Place Matters” national conference in Washington, D.C., which focused on the relationship between location and health, particularly with regard to racial and ethnic health inequities.
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