Poor people in rich neighborhoods have higher death rates

Are people living in a high socioeconomic status neighborhood all well off? It turned out that when poor people living in a rich neighborhood, their risk of death increase. According to a study spanning 17 years, 1.9% of low socioeconomic status women who lived in wealthier neighborhoods had died of heart disease, compared with 1.1% of women from poorer neighborhoods. (the trend was the same in men, but less dramatic). That is 73% increase on the death rate.

The reason? 1) cost of living in an rich neighborhood could leave poor people with little income to spend on health care and healthy food; 2) poor people get reminded every day that they're at the bottom of the social ladder. This psychological and social discrepancy have an negative effect on a person's health.