Why Reducing Poverty – and Stress – Might Be a Key to Better Health
Health & Wellness
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Researchers in recent years have been able to link many chronic health conditions to high levels of stress, which is more prevalent in low-income communities.
Study Shows Amputation Rates Higher in Low-Income Areas
Health & Wellness
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Diabetes cases that require amputation of limbs and extremities are more common among poorer patients.
Build a Class and They Will Come
Healthy Communities
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Once the domain of those who could afford gym memberships, fitness classes are now increasingly available to low-income families, who are flocking to them. The programs not only yield personal health benefits but also empower communities.
Mobile Camps Deliver Summer Fun for Low-Income Communities
Health & Wellness
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A few cities in the county are using innovative ways to give kids in poorer neighborhoods a more supervised summer. Santa Ana is struggling.
Reality Behind OC’s Urban Health
Countywide
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Preconceived notions regarding the reasons for obesity and other neighborhood health ills are not as cut-and-dried upon closer examination.
Huntington Beach Neighborhood Loses Link to More Healthful Eating
Healthy Communities
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The market, which has offered fresh produce to the low-income community of Oak View for a year, will go “on a pause” this month.
Breathmobiles Help Young Asthma Sufferers Breathe More Easily
Countywide
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In Orange County, doctors have taken to the streets in mobile
clinics to combat the disease in low-income communities.