Exploring the Correlations between Health and Community Socioeconomic Status in Chicago

Susan Longworth

Profitwise, 2014, issue Sum, 1-17

Abstract: Much research demonstrates that where you live ? and the socioeconomic conditions present in that place ? determine individual-level health outcomes.[1] The premise that individual stressors tend to aggregate themselves into communities with poor socioeconomic status (SES) leads to the conclusion that ?where you live determines how long you live.? As former Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke stated, ?Factors such as educational attainment, income, access to healthy food and the safety of a neighborhood tend to correlate with individual health outcomes in that neighborhood.?[2] These factors are referred to as the social determinants of health.

Keywords: Chicago; community; health; housing; socioeconomic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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