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Report Presents Data On Race, Ethnic Health Inequities In Springfield

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     Massachusetts has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the country with people living an average of 80.7 years.   But Springfield is below the statewide rate. In one inner-city neighborhood, life expectancy is 70.3 years.

     The high rate of premature mortality is one of the key findings in the Springfield Health Equity Report released today by the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts.

     It is an update of a report published five years ago by the organization that showed black and Latino populations lag behind whites in health outcomes.

     WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the institute’s executive director Jessica Collins.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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