- Benefits of living in healthier neighborhoods include an increased access to supermarkets, lower crime rates, higher quality schools and an increase in primary care physicians (VCU 2015).
- As a result of health disparities, a white child born in the Oakland Hills is expected to live 15 years longer than an African American child born in West Oakland (Gehlert 2015).
- 45% of African-American children live in areas of intensified poverty, while 12% of white children live in similar living conditions (EPI 2013).
- Poor neighborhoods have hazards that contribute to the health of their inhabitants (EPI 2013).
- Some of the implications of a higher level of education include better jobs, higher earnings, reduced stress, and resources for improved health (VCU 2015).
- P.A. Braveman concludes from research that, “the results for several indicators, including infant mortality and adult life expectancy, for example, revealed that Blacks have worse outcomes than do Whites at each level of income or education” (Braveman 2010).