Moving to Action on Place-Based Health

Since the English physician John Snow first mapped London ’s cholera outbreak to a local water pump in the 1850s, it has been understood that a community’s design affects the health of its inhabitants. Present-day research continues to support a dominant role for place-based factors in generating health outcomes, but investment in local drivers of heal th has not kept pace with our understanding of their outsize influence on morbidity and mortality.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research