Too Young to Die: Life's Toll. Erin McCormick and Reynolds Holding.
by McCormick, Erin; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 61Family. Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Crime -- Sociological aspects | Infants -- Mortality | Infants (Premature) | Labor (Obstetrics) -- Complications | Mortality -- Statistics | Pollution -- Physiological effect | Poverty | San Francisco (Calif.) | Stress (Physiology) | Stress (Psychology)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "In Bayview-Hunters Point, the stress created by environmental problems, racism, poverty and crime may explain why so many babies die young. Infant mortality is twice as high here as in the rest of San Francisco." (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) The authors examine the high mortality rate in Bayview-Hunters Point and note that "the answer, some experts believe, lies in the cumulative toll levied by stress from neighborhood conditions--ranging from violent crime, drugs, slum housing, a dearth of grocery stores, a lack of political clout and living in a dumping ground for industrial pollutants."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Too Young to Die: Life's Toll, Oct. 3, 2004; pp. n.p..
"In Bayview-Hunters Point, the stress created by environmental problems, racism, poverty and crime may explain why so many babies die young. Infant mortality is twice as high here as in the rest of San Francisco." (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) The authors examine the high mortality rate in Bayview-Hunters Point and note that "the answer, some experts believe, lies in the cumulative toll levied by stress from neighborhood conditions--ranging from violent crime, drugs, slum housing, a dearth of grocery stores, a lack of political clout and living in a dumping ground for industrial pollutants."
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