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Bridges and roads as important to your health as what's in your medicine cabinet

  • Written by Korydon Smith, Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of Global Health Equity, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageThe water tower in Flint, Michigan, where lead-contaminated water led to a health crisis in 2014. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

Two seemingly unrelated national policy debates are afoot, and we can’t adequately address one unless we address the other.

Health care reform has been the hottest topic. What to do about America’s aging infrastructure...

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