December 12th, 2017
he work of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) joins a growing body of literature confirming the critical importance of neighborhood conditions to health inAmerica. Saying simply that the “incidence rates are not spread evenly across a region” understates the reality. The fact is that, in virtually all regions of the country, health problems are highly concentrated in a small share of all neighborhoods—typically those that rate highest on a number of indicators of distress.