Baltimore health chief Wen wants to close the life expectancy gap between poor and wealthy areas

Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen uses an example to highlight some of the challenges causing a wide health disparities gap between the city's richer, white neighborhoods and poorer, black neighborhoods. As a physician, she said it would be difficult for her to recommend healthier eating to a heart disease patient living in one of Baltimore's food deserts. Why? Because that patient may have to take two buses to get to the nearest grocery store. And that store may be a Whole Foods,…
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