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Baltimore communities subject to historic redlining still have lower average life expectancies - by around five years - today

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Fig 2. 2013 Baltimore community statistical areas (CSAs) by life expectancy.

image: Fig 2. 2013 Baltimore community statistical areas (CSAs) by life expectancy. Darker blue is longer life expectancy. Numbers refer to CSA names. view more 

Credit: Huang, Sehgal et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Baltimore communities subject to historic redlining still have lower average life expectancies - by around five years - today

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261028   

Article Title: Association of historic redlining and present-day health in Baltimore

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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