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This article originally appeared on the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Economy Matters blog on January 3, 2019. As part of our Healthy Communities Initiative blog series, we highlight the role of regional Federal Reserve Banks in supporting and enabling cross-sector collaboration across the community development and health sectors.
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This article originally appeared on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Community Development and Policy Studies blog on December 19, 2018. As part of our Healthy Communities Initiative blog series, we highlight the role of regional Federal Reserve Banks in supporting and enabling cross-sector collaboration across the community development and health sectors.
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We talked with Jeanne Milliken Bonds, Regional Community Development Team Leader, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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Redlining has a long and unsavory history in America. A policy initiated by the federal Home Owners Loan Corporation in the 1930s in order to stabilize the housing market, its discriminatory impact on low-income and minority communities continues to be felt today.
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Substandard housing has consequences on renters’ health and burdens the U.S. health care system, research shows. And the region served by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is no exception.
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Austin is making a big bet on the future of urban health care, and unlikely partnerships among the health, urban planning, and community development sectors are at its core.
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Protesters took to the streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last month after the fatal police shooting of a black man. Among their concerns was the over-reliance on policing and incarceration in low-income communities to address problems associated with systemic poverty and poor health.
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When Reno’s Renown Health and the Washoe County Health District teamed up to conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) in 2014, they found that the region shared a basic health profile with the rest of the state and country. Heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory disease were the leading causes of death. However, the CHNA found that the mortality rates from these causes were higher in the region than in the rest of Nevada or the U.S., and found that chronic disease was a cause of major economic strain for local families. And within the county, some communities fared far worse than others.
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For most people, health is not what immediately comes to mind when they hear about the Federal Reserve—unless it’s the “health” of the American economy.
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