Closing Chicago’s Life Expectancy Gap
From In the Loop · 29:29
Show by WBEZ Chicago
After charting the grim reality that there was a 35-year difference in life expectancy for Americans based on zip code, Chicago physician Dr. David Ansell charts a path through this divide in Crossing the Gap: Healing Epidemics and Inequalities in a Divided City. He shares successful community engagement stories from Chicago’s West Side. In the Loop learns more about the ways that hospitals could change how they engage with communities to close the death gap.GUEST: Dr. David Ansell, professor of medicine, Rush University Medical Center; author: Crossing the Gap: Healing Epidemics and Inequalities in a Divided CityPastor Marshall Hatch, senior pastor, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist ChurchFor a full archive of In the Loop interviews, head over to wbez.org/intheloop.
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