The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies will release a report, Place Matters for Health in Baltimore: Ensuring Equitable Opportunities for Good Health.
The report documents a 30-year difference in life expectancy across census tracts in the city. Census tracts with a high proportion of people of color, the report finds, disproportionately suffer from a lack of investment in the opportunity structures that help people to be healthy, such as high-quality schools and housing. Conversely, these communities tend to host a disproportionate concentration of health risks, such as environmental degradation, vendors selling unhealthy products, and unsafe streets.
The report offers a number of policy strategies to address these neighborhood-level health risks. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) will comment on the report.
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