Where you live predicts lifelong health. However, structural racism determines who lives where and the condition of our neighborhoods, playing an active role in shaping health outcomes and health inequities.
Neighborhoods are substantial determinants of health across a person’s life. Where people live influences their likelihood of getting chronic diseases like heart disease, infectious diseases like Covid-19, or adverse birth outcomes. Some neighborhoods have conditions that foster health, while others have conditions that make it harder to be healthy. Due to historical and ongoing racism that produced racial residential segregation, health-promoting and health-damaging conditions are not distributed evenly across racial groups. This is a significant reason why Black, Indigenous, and other people of color have shorter lifespans and more disease and injury than their white counterparts. 
Racism, Neighborhoods, and Health Inequities
Authors: Eli Michaels, Xing Gao, Rachel Berkowitz Reviewer: Sai Ramya Maddali
