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: 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. The legacy of redlining in the effect of foreclosures on Detroit residents’ self-rated health. Health & Place 55, 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.10.004. [3] For more on the study in Milwaukee on redlining and community health data on breast cancer survival, see: Beyer, K.M.M., Zhou, Y., Matthews, K., Bemanian, A., Laud, P.W., Nattinger, A.B., 2016.