ANALYZING ZIP CODE DATA

TO EXPOSE HEALTH INEQUITIES AND TARGET SOLUTIONS

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Place Matters program has looked at health disparities and the impact of racism in dozens of communities.

 

“When we saw in highly segregated areas, life expectancies in the mid-50s, but in the 80s at an affluent area right next door, we explored community development,” said George Hobor, a Senior Program Officer at RWJF.

“We wanted to look at statistics to help us answer the question of how do we best invest in communities that have been disinvested in?”