HLTH260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Blood Lead Level, Human Rights Watch, Reproduction
10 Jul 2019
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Although research on public parks suggests that poor people are as likely as the rich or the well- off to live in geographic areas specifically, census tracks endowed with public parks (moore et al. 2008), they are less likely to have easy and safe access to such places: the high crime rates and the heavy local traffic of the neighborhoods in which poor people live pose threats to walkers. 2011) mean that social access (actual capacity to use the park) is much lower than spatial access (proximity) would imply. The parks are in the census track, but poor people feel discouraged from using them. 2009) has looked at the quality of parks in poor neighborhoods and found other disamenities. In one neighborhood the staircase giving access to the park was "overgrown with invasive vegetation, steps were covered with moss, and handrails were in disrepair" (krieger et al.
