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When environment determines health options more than personal choice

My neighborhood has no grocery stores with fresh food but three payday loan places and I understand viscerally how geography shapes health destiny in ways that feel completely beyond individual control.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spatial inequality in health resources reveals how individual wellness depends on collective infrastructure beyond personal decision-making.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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