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Efforts to reduce air pollution should focus on neighborhoods with the worst health impacts.

Every year in NYC between 2015 and 2017 (the most recent years for which this analysis is available), fine particulate matter pollution from motor …

Housing

Most people spend most of their time at home - so the household environment can significantly affect health. Disrepair that stems from long-term …

Inequality and health inequities

Inequality is a significant driver of bad health: a society that deprives people of resources to stay healthy is a society where many people become …

Economic conditions

Social and economic conditions affect people’s health. These conditions (also called “social determinants of health”) are conditions that people may …

Social conditions

Social and economic conditions affect people’s health. These conditions (also called “social determinants of health”) are conditions that people may …

Violence

Violence is the use of physical, verbal, and/or emotional force to injure, harm, abuse, damage, or destroy. Interpersonal violence includes child …

Why violence is a public health issue

Using public health to prevent violence Experiencing violence affects people in many ways. It not only causes physical injury or death, but being …

A brief history of redlining

Inside the 90-year-old financial policy that harms our health In public health, we often cite structural racism to help explain health patterns in our …

Health, housing, and history

For health, place matters What determines whether or not you’re healthy? You may think about what you eat, whether you exercise, whether you smoke and …