Poverty Public Health Crisis

For Healthier People, We Need Healthier Neighborhoods

"Poverty is a place-based public health crisis," writes Amy Gillman, LISC's director of community health, in a blog for The Huffington Post. A partnership with the County Health Rankings, which measure the wellbeing of people in nearly every U.S. county, is helping us hone our strategies for getting at the tangled social, economic and physical roots of poor health in low-income neighborhoods.