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With our partner, the Connecticut Health Foundation, Connecticut Public Radio's Health Equity and Access Project strives to create awareness about Health Access and advance Health Equity among Connecticut residents, businesses, the educational community, the health care sector, community leaders, and policymakers.As the only statewide public radio station, Connecticut Public Radio has the flexibility and resources to educate Connecticut residents about health disparities through in-depth reporting, hour-long programs, and community events.Visit the Connecticut Health Foundation at cthealth.org.

Changing Health Outcomes

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A few weeks ago, the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP released areport showing significant health, economic, and educational disparities between White and minority populations....so significant that they’re calling it a modern day “urban apartheid.”

In Connecticut, pregnant black women are 2x more likely to deliver a smaller baby early, Black men are 2x more likely to die of prostate cancer than White men...with overall life expectancy for Black men significantly shorter than for their White peers.

But  why does this disparity exist?  And what can we do to change it?

Today, where we live, we’ll listen to a live conversation we taped in front of a studio audience as part of our Health Equity Project.

We’ll ask why is it so difficult to close the disparity gap in one of the wealthiest states in the nation....and we’ll be joined by a community organizer, an epidemiologist doing health “mapping,” and a physician who’s made health disparities her focus.

Leave your comments below, join us on Facebook, or tweet us @wherewelive.

 

Tucker Ives is WNPR's morning news producer.
Catie Talarski is Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at Connecticut Public.
Betsy started as an intern at WNPR in 2011 after earning a Master's Degree in American and Museum Studies from Trinity College. She served as the Senior Producer for 'The Colin McEnroe Show' for several years before stepping down in 2021 and returning to her previous career as a registered nurse. She still produces shows with Colin and the team when her schedule allows.

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