In New York City, the prevalence of asthma among children entering school varies by neighborhood anywhere from 3% to 19%, and children growing up within walking distance of each other can have 2-3 fold differences in risk ...
May 17, 2011
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Walking is sometimes equated with simplicity itself. If your task is a "walk in the park," it might require little more than baby steps to get things moving.
Apr 2, 2024
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Residents of Atlanta's majority-Black and low-income neighborhoods have significantly less access to fresh produce than residents of the city's non-majority-Black and higher income neighborhoods, according to a new surveillance ...
Sep 20, 2023
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They say home is where the heart is. But can a person's home also play a role in how healthy that heart is?
Aug 1, 2023
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School's out for the summer, and millions of children are home relaxing, working or frolicking in the sun. But, summer's also a time when many kids can gain weight quickly—and at unhealthy levels.
Jul 13, 2023
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Newborns of non-refugee immigrant females are at overall lower risk of serious illness and death than those of Canadian-born females in low-income neighborhoods in Ontario, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Patients with social needs experience a higher number of hospitalizations, obesity, prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis on the social determinants ...
Dec 12, 2022
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People in the U.S. who live in socially vulnerable neighborhoods, which includes communities with higher rates of poverty, crowded living situations and/or a higher proportion of people from diverse racial and ethnic groups, ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Mexico's president lashed out Tuesday at criticism of the country's coronavirus vaccination effort, dismissing a pair of scandals as the work of conservative opponents or grumpy "elderly people who go grumbling because they ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Discriminatory housing policies that restricted the sale or purchase of homes by race in certain neighborhoods across the U.S., called 'redlining,' which were established nearly a century ago and outlawed by the Fair Housing ...
Mar 11, 2021
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