McCormick, Erin,

Too Young to Die: Life's Toll. Erin McCormick and Reynolds Holding. - San Francisco Chronicle, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 61, Family, 1522-3213; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. 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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Crime--Sociological aspects
Infants--Mortality
Infants (Premature)
Labor (Obstetrics)--Complications
Mortality--Statistics
Pollution--Physiological effect
Poverty
Stress (Physiology)
Stress (Psychology)


San Francisco (Calif.)

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