“When schools and neighborhoods are connected to critical city- and community-based services and private health, education, and economic assets, then residents are better able to access important wraparound services that support their well-being.”
Whole-body, well-being illustrates the intersectionality between the community justice themes pursued by the #CommunityJusticeNetwork in this series. When poverty, generational discriminatory housing policies, miseducation, community disinvestment, and trauma collide we see increased health disparities.
Read more about whole-body, well-being in the op-ed published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Books
"Medical Apartheid" by Harriett A. Washington
Articles and other research
Additional research can be found at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, charleshamiltonhouston.org.
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