''Medical Minute'' with Dr. Ford Vox and Jim Burress
In this “Medical Minute” segment, WABE senior correspondent Jim Burress and medical analyst Dr. Ford Vox discuss the striking extent to which our health and even our lifespans are impacted by social influences, especially geography.
Pioneering research at Tulane University has found that children living in more dangerous neighborhoods show changes in their very biology compared to children who live in safer neighborhoods, when most other factors are controlled. Another analysis from East Tennessee State University rearranges all the counties in the United States by income, and uncovers huge disparities in lifespan between the top and bottom counties, and Georgia is one of only five states with both extremes.
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