Lessons from Reporting "Shortened Lives"

http://www.contracostatimes.com/life-expectancy

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Julie Rettig, center, and her husband and daughter live in ZIP code 94546 in Castro Valley, Calif. Life expectancy in this middle-class suburb is 79 years. Richard Angelis lives in Walnut Creek, Calif. on a tree-lined street in ZIP code 94597, where life expectancy is 87.4 years. The Orantes family lives in ZIP code 94603 in Oakland, Calif. Life expectancy in this high-crime, resource-poor neighborhood is 71.2 years.

A seven-part series on the “social determinants of health,” or SDOH.

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SOBRANTE PARK COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM In Sobrante Park in Oakland, residents live on average 71.2 years, nearly seven years below the California average of 78.4 years. In 2004, the Alameda County Public Health Department chose Sobrante Park as a laboratory for testing how social cohesion and civic leadership improves health by bringing neighbors together to advocate for resources like better parks, better bus service or more police patrols. In a separate initiative, The California Endowment this year began funding its Building Healthy Communities initiative. It intends to spend hundreds of millions of dollars from 2010 to 2020 building up resource-poor neighborhoods.

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"Shortened Lives" won the 2010 White House Correspondents' Association Edgar A. Poe award for print or broadcast coverage of national significance. President Obama congratulated award winners at the association's annual dinner in Washington, D.C.

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