“Why Place Matters: Building the Movement for Healthy Communities”

Why place matters is an interesting subject because where you live can deteermine how a persons life can end up turning into. In this section of reading it deals with four subjects including Economic, Social, Physical, and finally services. First off economic reasons invole getting good jobs and living a stress free life because of money situations. living a well economically life can be a plus and then they can afford good benefits for what the job has to offer including money. A better neighborhood will be on the plus side and be much much safer then other bad communities. The next is social and it involves cukltural characteristics and how a person interacts with his or her community. being in a safer community can well benefit a persons life compared to being in a dangerous one. This would lead to more friends and trust worthy friends at that. Physical is the next one on the list would involve clean neighborhoods with clean air and water systems. if a person lives in a moldey disgusting house compared to a well fascilitated house, the better house would make a persons life much more healthier and thus leading to a longer life. the pollution in the air effects everyone but in some areas the pollutiiion is terrible and is causing many health problems that is making life hard on people.the fourth section is services and involves how good of a health insurance a person haves. everyone knows that the better your insurance is the more time you can go to the doctors for checkups compared to the people with less oppurtunities for health services. how good of a school is involved with this and the better a sschool is the better and healthier life a person would live compared to a run down poverty stricken school is. all four of these statements are why place matters in relations to a persons health.