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Residents in North Hollywood, San Pedro and even Silver Lake die younger than those who reside just a few miles away in Sherman Oaks, Bel-Air home plans virtual tours and Westwood, according to key findings home plans virtual tours that, for the first time, will be included in the city of Los Angeles' general plan.
More than 100 health indicators -- such as obesity, home plans virtual tours coronary home plans virtual tours disease and asthma home plans virtual tours -- were studied within neighborhoods across Los Angeles and compiled into a health atlas, which includes a series of 115 maps. Results show that while economic disparities do affect home plans virtual tours health, so does land use. The atlas was released by former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on his last day in office.
"Too often a person's neighborhood determines their health destiny," Villaraigosa said. The goal of compiling the atlas, he noted, was to ensure that city officials would consider how future development impacts neighborhoods where bike lanes, walking home plans virtual tours paths and parks could be integrated with new housing developments and transportation hubs.
In Sherman Oaks, Bel-Air and Westwood, for example, residents are more likely to live up to 84 years old -- that's 12 years longer than those residing in South Los Angeles, the northeast San Fernando home plans virtual tours Valley or the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
home plans virtual tours In North Hollywood, San Pedro and Silver Lake, there are areas with no safe walkways, only one to three acres of Advertisement parkland or open space per 1,000 people and high rates of motor vehicle home plans virtual tours crashes with pedestrians and cyclists. They also have higher rates of respiratory disease and fewer fresh-food grocery stores home plans virtual tours per 10,000 residents.
"With the health atlas included into the general plan, city departments will consider policies and programs through a health lens," said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner for the City of Los Angeles. "That is a groundbreaking step for a city as large as Los Angeles." He added that the general plan is the city's overall road map for how Los Angeles home plans virtual tours will grow in the future. It has not been updated in almost home plans virtual tours 20 years.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said in a statement home plans virtual tours it was important that the city and county work together. "The numerous environmental factors contributing to health disparities -- poverty, the unhealthy food environment, limited access to places for physical activity and increased time spent in sedentary activities -- must be addressed through comprehensive efforts by the City and Los Angeles County working home plans virtual tours together, targeting each of these factors to improve health outcomes for all residents."
Adding parks, increasing pedestrian safety and finding ways to improve air quality in high-density areas such as Pacoima or central Long Beach not only benefits those communities home plans virtual tours but has broader impacts, such as the air quality of the whole region, added Beatriz Solis, program director for Health Communities, South Region for the California Endowment.
home plans virtual tours Seattle, for example, has been at the forefront of thinking broadly on how to integrate transportation with employment and other public sectors, she said. "People really understand that having safe parks, safe streets, safe passage to school, good air quality and transportation that make sense, really helps communities thrive. This health atlas is a really big deal."