A breath of fresh air: how environmentalists, health experts, and poverty advocates are forging new coalitions to tackle an urban asthma epidemic.(THE ENVIRONMENT: DEATH AND REBIRTH)
American Prospect, The, October, 2005 by Lomax, Geoffrey; Roberts, Eric; English, Paul
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THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT IN urban health came in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, when a series of broad changes transformed the social and material environment for millions of inner-city Americans. Important policies aimed at improving children's health, working conditions, housing, and public sanitation translated into dramatic improvements in the health of the average American.
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And they happened, largely, because Americans in the Progressive Era had come to recognize that "health" is inextricably linked to the much broader social, economic, and environmental ...
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