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Englewood is a neighborhood and community area located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is also the 68th of the 77 community areas in the city. At its peak population in 1960, over 97,000 people lived in its approximately 3 square miles (7.8 km 2), [2] but the neighborhood's population has since dropped dramatically.
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? is a four-hour documentary series, broadcast nationally in the United States on PBS in spring 2008, [1] that examines the role of social determinants of health in creating health inequalities / health disparities (which the film considers health inequities) in the US.
The Chicago Department of Public Health was established in a 1876 reorganization of the city's health apparatus. [1]In 1975, the Chicago City Council revised the city's municipal code to make it clear that the nine-member Chicago Board of Health was the policy-making body for health and the Chicago Department of Health is the agency which administers the city's health programs and enforces ...
NIMHD addresses disparities in minority health in the United States. It defines minority health as "all aspects of health and disease in one or more racial/ethnic minority populations as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, including Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Asians, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders."
Race has played a decisive role in shaping systems of medical care in the United States. The divided health system persists, in spite of federal efforts to end segregation, health care remains, at best widely segregated both exacerbating and distorting racial disparities. [ 64 ]
My Block, My Hood, My City, also known as M3, [1] is a non-profit organization in Chicago that mentors underprivileged youth through educational programs and field trips. [2] The organization focuses on providing opportunities in STEM, arts & culture, citizenry & volunteerism, health, community development, culinary arts, and entrepreneurship.
Discrimination. The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status. [1] They are the health promoting factors found in one's living and working conditions (such as the distribution of income, wealth, influence, and power), rather than individual risk ...
In recent years, white Americans have collectively experienced a consistently declining life expectancy. In particular, this trend is prevalent among non-college educated whites and is largely related to the deaths of despair phenomenon. [13] After 1998, other first-world countries' mortality rates began to fall by 2% a year, which matched the ...