HPRB 3700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Asthma, Atheroma
2 May 2018
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Place Matters
• Place determines what someone is exposed to
o Where you live, work
o What physical or chemical agents exposed to, social environment, crime or violence,
easy to walk or find healthy foods, who neighbors are and how you interact
• Health embedded in places we are in
• Could be socially patterned
o Neighborhoods
• Richmond, CA
o High rates for heart disaster
o Children hospitalized 2x higher for asthma
• 30% income toward house and cars
• Cash and check up to 10% more than affluent neighborhoods
o POVERTY TAX
• Mortgages back for leaving Richmond with white people
o Blaks ouldn’t leae
• 2% went to non-white households
• Too many stress hormones
o Weaken immune system
o Wear down on arterial plaque
• Few coping resources now
• Violence primed to be affective
• $20 bill in asthma costs
• Reuilding neighorhoods isn’t possile eeryhere
o WHO gets to make decisions
• First have to acknowledge that envn impacts health
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