The Connection Between Racial Segregation and Illness [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/18/164:00 AM

Racial housing segregation is worst in the northeast and Great Lakes regions, according to a new report, and it’s making people sick. This year’s edition of County Health Rankings, an annual rating of the health of all the nation’s counties, added the segregation measure because it has “been linked to poor health outcomes, including greater infant and adult mortality, and a wide variety of reproductive, infectious, and chronic diseases,” the report authors write.

[For more of this story, written by Olga Khazan, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...ericans-sick/474201/]

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