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Housing and Placed Based Health Disparities

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Lesson 6 - Housing and Placed Based Health Disparities 10.6 - 10.12
*Questions:
1.What do you think was the key message?
2.Did you agree or disagree with the main argument of the reading?
3. But what is the main concern point of viewing in public health from these article
4. Think about the concepts you are being introduced to and how they relate to each other, particularly the health outcomes you are focused on (or plan to focus on)
*Your answers must include 4 facts
1. Discuss Place-based health disparities
2. Understand how housing and place can influence diseases and illness
3. Discuss how housing and place can undermine or promote health at the individual, community , organizational and societal levels
4. Make sure your interest is specific. Reflect on key terms
5. You must build your argument
6. Once you have a core set of articles for each argument , pay attention to their references. What are the common argument? Are you beginning to see a cluster of authors?
7. Do you have any other different direction or thoughts?
Notes:
Housing and Health
- The stability and quality of housing and neighborhood conditions, play a critical role in shaping health
- Where we live impacts quality schools, good jobs, nutritious food, and green space, which are key ingredients to health and well being
- High housing costs mean less money for transportation, medical care, utilities, food and savings
- Poor health is more common in [places that are segregated from opportunity
- Housing and health inequalities of today stem largely from discriminatory Policies and practices put in place decades ago (i.e., redlining)
- Gaps in homeownership by race have remained virtually unchanged since 1968(Implementation of fair housing Act)
- An estimated 4 million people experience discrimination in the rental housing market annually
- Renter are more likely to pay over half their income on housing, which forces some to live in unsafe or overcrowded places.
*The following readings are required for this lesson:
• Roux, A. V. D. (2016). Neighborhoods and health: what do we know? What should we do?. American journal of public health, 106(3), 430.
• Bachelder AE, Stewart MK, Felix HC, Sealy N (2016). “Health complaints associated with poor rental housing conditions in Arkansas.” Frontiers of Public Health, 4:263.
• Butera, C. January 30, 2018. “Are We Worried Sick About the Rent?” Citylab.
*Supplemental Readings--- you can choose one or two
1. Laveist T, Pollack K, Thorpe R Jr, Fesahazion R, Gaskin D. Place, not race: disparities dissipate in southwest Baltimore when blacks and whites live under similar conditions. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011;30(10):1880-7.
2. Vlahov D, Freudenberg N, Proietti F, Ompad D, Quinn A, Nandi V, Galea S. Urban as a determinant of health. J Urban Health. 2007;84(3 Suppl):i16-26.
3. Glass T and MJ McAtee. Behavioral science at the crossroads in public health: Extending horizons, envisioning the future. Social Science and Medicine. 2006; 62:1650-1671.
4. Black JL, Macinko J, Dixon LB, Fryer GE Jr. Neighborhoods and obesity in New York City. Health Place. 2010;16(3):489-99.
5. Capon AG. Health impacts of urban development: key considerations. N S W Public Health Bull. 2007;18(9-10):155-6.
6. Cohen D, Spear S, Scribner R, Kissinger P, Mason K, Wildgen J. Broken windows and the risk of gonorrhea. Am J Public Health. 2000;90(2): 230-
7. Harpham T. Urban health in developing countries: What do we know and where do we go? Health Place. 2009;15(1):107-16.
8. Silver D, Mijanovich T, Uyei J, Kapadia F, Weitzman BC. Lifting boats without closing gaps: child health outcomes in distressed US cities from 1992-2002. Am J Public Health. 2011;101(2):278-84.

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Housing and placed based health disparities.
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HOUSING AND PLACED BASED HEALTH DISPARITIES
1 What do you think was the key message?
The video is about the survival and destruction of one community in New York City. In 1949, President Harry Truman enforced the Housing Act, which gave the federal, state and local governments the authority to change residential life. One of the housing initiatives that was enacted was urban renewal. The government's main goal was to transform the neighborhood into a planned city. This initiative by the government displaced more than 300,000 families from their homes. However, the most interesting it about it is that half of the victims were black. According to President Harry, the slum led to the transmission of diseases among the black community, while the urban renewal initiative was meant to promote good health (LaVeist, Pollack, Thorpe Jr, Fesahazion & Gaskin, 2011). It is important to note that poor health is common in places that are segregated from opportunities, just like West 99th and 98th Streets in New York City. According to Bachelder AE, Stewart MK, Felix HC &Sealy (d2016), health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of illnesses or opportunities to achieve ideal health experienced by socially disadvantaged communities. In this reading, the black community was socially disadvantaged since people lived in slums and were exposed to the burden of diseases. The government's objective was to implement an initiative to ease this burden and promote good health among the people.
2 Did you agree or disagree with the main argument of the reading?
No. I disagree with the main argument of the reading. Although many people thought that the urban renewal initiative destroyed the neighborhood, this initiative aimed to transform the area into a healthy one (Butera, 2018). Initially, this was a slum with a high disease prevalence. From the video, the houses were congested, and the population was...
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