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“Building Healthy Communities” Highlighted In Book About Challenging Health Disparities

If you’re a regular Valley Public Radio listener, you probably already know that your health depends a lot on where you live. But just 10 years ago, that field of research was still emerging. One of the first journalists to tackle that issue in depth was Suzanne Bohan, at that time a reporter with the Bay Area News Group. Her 4-part series on zip code-level disparities and the social determinants of health earned her a White House Correspondents’ award in 2010. Since then, she’s bolstered her reporting with more stories not just of health disparities, but also of grassroots organizing and a massive statewide campaign that’s led to hundreds of policies and laws that have served to improve the health of Californians. Last month, she collected all this reporting in her second book, entitled Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequity . Listen to the audio above for an interview with Bohan about the book and about how health advocates in California are
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