The wealthiest men in San Diego County can expect to live almost a decade longer than their poorest counterparts.
That’s one of the findings from the Health Inequality Project, a report written by researchers from Stanford, Harvard and MIT. In 2014, the most recent year available, a 40-year-old San Diego County man in the top quarter of income earners could expect to live to almost 90. A man of the same age in the bottom quarter of income would only expect to live to 80.
Steven Eldred with the California Endowment has been working to address those environmental factors that impact health in the San Diego community of City Heights. His work is part of a holistic 10-year project to address a variety of environmental factors in 14 California communities.
“The study then showed a very strong correlation between the number of these adverse childhood experiences that they’ve had and then the rates of heart diseases or diabetes or other health conditions later in life,” Eldred said.
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