Toward a Healthier Garden State – Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID Greenberg

Toward a Healthier Garden StateBeyond Cancer Clusters and COVID\nAuthor(s): Michael R. Greenberg, Dona Schneider\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978832015, 978-1978832015\nSynopsis\nWhile New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of Americas healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the states overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry.\n This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a states citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education.