Southeast Is the Most Unhealthy U.S. Region [Slide Show]
Illness is high and access to health care is low
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Southeast Is the Most Unhealthy U.S. Region [Slide Show]
- HEALTH INJUSTICE The southeastern U.S. is sometimes criticized as a place with striking patterns of racial and environmental injustice. Those trends combined with other factors also seem to make it a region for health injustice, according to Robert Bullard, dean of public affairs at Texas Southern University, who has spent a lifetime investigating these issues... Slide source: Robert Bullard. Data source: America’s Health Rankings
