Toward a Healthier Garden State: Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID

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Synopsis
While New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781978832022
Related ISBNs:
9781978832008, 9781978832015
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Michael R. Greenberg and Dona Schneider
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Medicine, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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