why is family health necessary for a better community
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As I write this, I have had the tremendous privilege of spending the holidays with my family, my siblings, cousins, “tias y tios” and those still left with us. I have been thinking of the families that we are born to and the families that we make and I feel fortunate to have people around me who are important anchors in my life.
Holidays give us the pause to reflect on those still with us, and those we will no longer enjoy as part of our living family. This past holiday, one of my uncles who has suffered from diabetes and cancer experienced the very rapid decline and then death of his closest friend from a very aggressive cancer. The emotional cost of his buddy’s death was so high for my uncle that he lost his will to live and his own life slipped away at the close of this year.
Communities that are attentive to public health can even reduce inequality among their residents. “[Community health] also helps to reduce health gaps caused by differences in race and ethnicity, location, social status, income and other factors that can affect health,”