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Build a Better Neighborhood to Boost Kids' Health [usnews.com]

Alicia Doktor 5/10/187:57 AM

BEING POOR CAN BE hazardous to your health, but a new study shows building a better neighborhood may help blunt poverty's ill effects.

According to the study by researchers at the University of California—San Francisco, low-income children were found to have less stress and be in better physical health if they lived in higher-opportunity neighborhoods.

Researchers examined the impact of neighborhood quality and a family's socioeconomic status on the health of a group of kindergartners in the Bay Area. To do so, they analyzed existing data showing levels of the stress hormone cortisol in 338 kindergartners from varying economic backgrounds, as well as assessments of the children's health by parents and teachers.

[For more on this story by Katelyn Newman, go to https://www.usnews.com/news/he...impact-of-being-poor]

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