I’m really interested in getting into health geography and the impact of place on mental health, so this is my jam.

The less basic idea here:

The basic idea is that greening projects can spark gentrification because they increase property values. Then financial pressures, community disruption, and mismatch between typical neighborhood uses of green spaces and potential uses of the new greenery can negatively impact people’s mental health.

But I hadn’t taken the thinking a step further to “maybe debt relief is a good lever for policy makers here” before reading this (probably because I don’t know anything about bankruptcy or debt relief). Highly recommend reading this!

Of course debt is an important element of people’s socioeconomic status, and how well off a person is constrains their ability to get health care under our system. And of course debt isn’t equally distributed across races in the U.S.

Man, I’m bummed about this.

Sorry, those are from 2019 and 2016, respectively. My bad!

And this was about childhood vaccination requirements, same time.

I don’t think Pew ran these same questions in the past, but this was about the measles vaccine in 2017.