Title: How Redlining Communities Affects Health - Geography Realm
Headings: How Redlining Communities Affects Health
How Redlining Communities Affects Health
The Health Effects of Redlining
Redlining Leads to More Foreclosures
Breast Cancer Rates and Redlining
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Content: There is a strong relationship between historical redlining, recent foreclosures, and long-term human health effects, with neighborhoods that were redlined facing higher rates of pollution similar to what was seen in California. [ 2]
Breast Cancer Rates and Redlining
One recent work has highlighted higher rates of death from breast cancer in relation to redlined neighborhoods in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin metropolitan area. It is argued that differential lending continues and some recent work has also created a spatial index, using adaptive spatial filtering, where redlining could be measured along with racial bias in lending practices. Similar to the other cases, historical, long-term biases in lending are apparent and there is a link with human health repercussions as a lack of resources to health care and exposure to risks are more pronounced. [ 3]
Map showing breast cancer mortality rate ratios by metro area, 2010-2014. Source, Beyer, 2019. Other work has shown that health problems begin early, with children and adolescents demonstrating clear unhealthy patterns based on redlined neighborhoods. Much of the disparities revolved around health care access, similar to the other studies, as well as exposure to health risks. The relationship between historical roots, such as going back to Jim Crowe era laws, and modern segregation in communities are pervasive and research has demonstrated long-term health effects affecting young people and not only older adults. [ 4]
Redlining has been a long-standing problem in the United States that has led to long-term health consequences and other inequalities.