Graphic: Trees and Shrubs vs. Medicare Costs (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Graphic: Trees and Shrubs vs. Medicare Costs

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The study found that increases in forest and shrub cover corresponded to decreases in health care spending. No such relationship was found with other types of vegetative land cover, however.

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Graphic by Gopikrishna J. Pillai, Scientific Illustrator

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