Where a child lives is linked to life expectancy

By | October 18, 2022

Kristen Shanahan, MD, MPH was featured in U.S. News & World Report about her manuscript published in JAMA Network Open. Dr. Shanahan and colleagues found that life expectancy in neighborhoods with very few educational, health, environmental, social, and economic opportunities for children was lower than life expectancy in “very high opportunity” neighborhoods. PMID: 36239940