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When you look at disparities in health outcomes you can:
1. Play the eugenics game. Let’s just all advise against that.
2. Take the pessimistic view that people of a certain zip code or certain color or certain whatever are just hopelessly bad decision makers and that they are irredeemably causing their own health issues.
3. Take the optimistic view that no certain collection of people want to be chronically unhealthy and there are indeed systemic factors that push them toward poor health choices. Things like access to healthy food or primary care physicians. Things like low crime rates and quality education. If you take this view point, you believe you can impact health on a large scale.
1. Play the eugenics game. Let’s just all advise against that.
2. Take the pessimistic view that people of a certain zip code or certain color or certain whatever are just hopelessly bad decision makers and that they are irredeemably causing their own health issues.
3. Take the optimistic view that no certain collection of people want to be chronically unhealthy and there are indeed systemic factors that push them toward poor health choices. Things like access to healthy food or primary care physicians. Things like low crime rates and quality education. If you take this view point, you believe you can impact health on a large scale.