Life expectancy, a key indicator for health, reveals continued health disparities between racial groups. Black, Latinx, and Native Americans are more likely than White and Asian Americans to live in areas with concentrated poverty due to the United States’ long history of racial segregation forged through historical practices such as racially exclusive housing covenants and zoning laws as well as ongoing ones such as discriminatory hiring and mortgage lending.
– NATIONAL EQUITY ATLAS
Where you live should not determine your possibilities.
Until disparities are addressed by giving individuals what they need to close the gaps in quality living, our country will continue the cycle of disproportionate poverty, higher levels of adverse health conditions, and elevated rates of crime in neglected and marginalized communities.
Be a conscious and caring citizen. Don’t sit on the sideline. If you think this issue doesn’t impact you, think again. Rising tides lift all ships.
NCHE actively measures and improves conditions for health and well-being, including those related to housing, education, income and wealth, and the physical and social environment. NCHE is committed to correcting historic and contemporary injustices and inequities in these dimensions that are often brought about by racism operating at structural, institutional, and interpersonal levels.
The People’s Institute believes that effective community, systems and institutional change happens when those who serve as agents of transformation understand the foundations of race and racism and how they continually function as a barrier to community self-determination, self-sufficiency, and interdependency.
The National Reach Coalition supports organizations in developing community-centered, racially and ethnically appropriate interventions that are practice/evidence based to advance a social model of environmental, programmatic, and infrastructural change at the local, state and national levels. These organizations utilize community-driven and evidence and/or practice-based strategies to identify and address the social determinants of health disparities among racial/ethnic populations across the nation.