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Suzanne Bohan

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    Youth organizers
    pushing for
    better health in a
    rural town.
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    Citizens in LA
    who protected
    housing and
    jobs.
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    This garden
    that grew after
    nonprofits
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Winner, White House Correspondents’ Association Award for newspaper series on health disparities.

LATEST BLOG POSTS

Type in a ZIP code in this new atlas, and see how place shapes health

For years, Dr. Amy Kind has been keenly aware that the neighborhoods in which her patients live often hinder their recovery. She described, for example, how worries over neighborhood safety deter home health care staff from visiting some of her low-income patients to check on their recovery. In one … READ MORE

Access to credit and savings plays a key role in promoting health

When Jennifer Bui, a resident of the low-income San Diego neighborhood of City Heights, turned 18, she started concentrating on her financial future. “I was really interested in building my credit and building my financial power, in a way,” said Bui, now 19 and studying engineering and physics at … READ MORE

LATEST BOOK

In Twenty Years of Life, Suzanne Bohan exposes the disturbing flip side of the American dream: your health is largely determined by your zip code. The strain of living in a poor neighborhood, with sub-par schools, lack of parks, fear of violence, few to no healthy food options, and the stress of unpaid bills is literally taking years off people’s lives. The difference in life expectancy between wealthy and distressed neighborhoods can be as much as twenty years.

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