What the T Can Tell Us about Health Inequalities

In an article featured on BU Today, Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health and a professor of epidemiology, examines the health of Boston through public transportation. Although statistics might suggest that Boston is a healthy city, a paragon of urban health by having some of the highest life expectancy of any US city (about 81 years), Boston also has some extraordinary disparities, both in health indicators and in the drivers of those indicators within its borders. Galea observes those indicators through a simple device: public transportation, which in Boston, means the T (short for MBTA). 

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