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: 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. New spatial methods, such as using adaptive spatial filtering techniques, have enabled measures of inequality for neighborhoods to be created and used to demonstrate how health and well being differs in communities. While tools to assess such disparities and research projects on this topic have been ongoing, long-term disparities in many cities have yet to be fully addressed. References
[1] For more on the study in California and redlining neighbourhoods, see: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/05/22/historically-redlined-communities-face-higher-asthma-rates/
[2] For more on redlining in Detroit and its relationship to foreclosures and health, see: McClure, E., Feinstein, L., Cordoba, E., Douglas, C., Emch, M., Robinson, W., Galea, S., Aiello, A.E., 2019.