Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequity

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In Twenty Years of Life, Suzanne Bohan exposes the ugly truth that health is largely determined by zip code. Life expectancies in wealthy versus poor neighborhoods can vary by as much as twenty years. Bohan chronicles a bold experiment to challenge that inequity. The California Endowment, one of the nation’s largest health foundations, is upending the old‑school, top‑down charity model and investing $1 billion over ten years to help distressed communities advocate for their own interests. With compassion and insight, Bohan shares stories of students and parents, former street shooters, urban farmers, and a Native American tribe who are tapping into their latent political power to make their neighborhoods healthier. Their stories will fundamentally change how we think about the root causes of disease and the prospects for healing. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix How Neighborhoods Kill (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 1-17 The Stress Effect (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 19-36 Keeping Kids in School (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 37-55 Changing Schools’ Rules (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 57-74 A Safe Place to Play (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 75-99 A Safe Place to Live (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 101-127 Rural Activism (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 129-151 Good Eats (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 153-174 Healing Trauma (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 175-196 Red and Blue Visions of Health (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 197-208 Epilogue (Suzanne Bohan)....Pages 209-214 Back Matter ....Pages 215-253