TO EXPOSE HEALTH INEQUITIES AND TARGET SOLUTIONS
George Hobor, a Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, said the connection
of geography and local conditions to health can be gauged by ever-emerging ways
of gathering data.
“We funded a project in Atlanta looking at hospital admissions for injuries due to violence. We tracked injuries resulting from violence on street, in parks, in public places and compared them to police reports,” he said.
“It shows how accurate is crime reporting. It revealed a gap in reported versus actual incidents.
People have an idea of what spaces are dangerous, but
with the data – we can chart things to do, we can identify things to fix in a
specific area.”
Based on data, RWJF has invested tens of millions of dollars in community development projects.
The grants pay for restoring and empowering areas as
small as a single block or half block. Improved socio-economic standing and
access to healthy living has a positive impact on those communities – proven by
data.
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