Your Neighborhood Affects your Health

[Metro Jacksonville]

Your Neighborhood Affects your Health



People’s health is influenced by where they live. Where we live is made up of many physical, social and cultural factors. The relation of these factors to health can be seen with almost every health issue that our community faces. This report focuses on how the place where we live is so important to our health.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/content/view/771

[Downtown Dweller]

Great article! One question, could the homeless population rate concentrated in the downtown area mpact Health Zone 1 figures also? I can plainly see based on the numbers this would still place Health Zone 1 at the top, but just curious.

[sheclown]

What a GREAT article.  Obviously, one would not want to sleep with anyone who lives in zone 1 -- laughing here as I live in zone 1.

Poverty is a killer.

Your pocketbook affects your health.

[thelakelander]

We had a discussion about smart growth, development boundaries and attempting to pull people back into the core, by improving its quality of life or adding taxes for suburb living in another thread the other day.  In that thread, I mentioned that maybe the city should offer a tax abatement program as an incentive to bring educated households back into the urban core.  If a tax abatement program were instituted, these maps show the general boundary of where it needs to be.

[willydenn]

What a GREAT article.  Obviously, one would not want to sleep with anyone who lives in zone 1 -- laughing here as I live in zone 1.

Poverty is a killer.

Your pocketbook affects your health.

Poor choices are a killer which affect your pocketbook which lead to poverty which affect your health. 

By looking only at the education statistic you could probably guess which zone would lead the other statistics.   It doesn't look like it's getting better anytime soon for zone one.....The teen birth rate is alarming.  Is there a stat on single parent homes per zone? 

Does that HIV/STD testing bus park on the corner of 8th and Market once a month anymore? 
   

[stephenc]

Is there a way to find more detailed info on each site that has a contaminated well?

[jmccharen]

This is incredible data. Incredible. Thank you!
Especially the diabetes rate info (which I relate to the food desert phenomenon, combined with crappy transit and poverty--if the only food you can get to without a car comes from a jiffy mart you're going to get sick eventually).
War on Poverty is already looking into this, but there's a serious need for food gardens in zone 1.
I can't wait to see the connections between sustainability, health and social justice take off in this screwed up world. It's going to be amazing.
Thanks again.

[fightingosprey07]

Wonderful Article. Very interesting demographics info.  But unfortunately, I think a better title for it might be "Your Socioeconomic Class Affects your Health"

[sheclown]

Isn't it interesting that in zone 1, people with all of their problems are much less likely to commit suicide, whereas, zone 6 with all of the education and higher income, is more likely?

That is very strange. 

Can anyone untangle that one?

Here in zone 1, we may be self-destructive, but only up to a point?

[Driven1]

This is not only in the zones of Jacksonville, this is universally true.  Once a population group reaches a certain critical mass, a poorer subsection economically always means a less healthy population for that subsection.

[willydenn]

Short article about the homeless in Orlando.....I mean moving out of Orlando. 

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2008/4/29/homeless_migrating_to_east_orange_county.html

[5PointsGuy]

The zone boundaries are pretty arbitrary. Can you really say 32205/32210 are similar to the far Westside or Near OP? Doesn't one think that the numbers would be skewed with the current zone lines?

[Johnny]

This is kinda scary. It's a good thing you can't catch an STD by just living in a neighborhood.

Sadly, I paid good money to live here... ROCK ON ZONE 1!