Brain Food
BRAIN FOOD
Statistics and community indicators are a starting point, only one component of the full story. The stories behind the numbers provide important context for our indicators, painting the more complex realities of society.
These discussion topics can help remind you of these larger narratives, shaping the way things are, the way things work, and the way things could be.
Consider this your BRAIN FOOD, nutrition for healthy thought!
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- Achievement Gap
- Arts and Culture
- Banking
- Belonging
- Bill Gates
- Catalyze
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- Common Ground Health
- Communicate
- Community Vitality
- Connect
- Continuous Improvement
- Curate
- Data
- Demographics
- Early Childhood
- Education
- Environmental Justice & Sustainability
- Equity
- Gentrification
- Housing
- Impact
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- Inclusive Recovery
- K-12 Education
- Measurement
- Mental Health
- PDSA
- Poverty
- Public Safety
- Research Design
- Social Capital
- Transportation
- Upward Mobility
- Voter Participation
- Workforce
- Youth
- Zoning
Curated Report: Common Ground Health “Spotlight: The Decline in Life Expectancy in the Finger Lakes Region, 2013-2021”
In December 2023, Common Ground Health published a report on the trends in life expectancy in our region. Life expectancy is widely regarded as an indicator of equity. In fact, the National Equity Atlas lists life expectancy as an indicator of race inequity.
The Common Ground report highlights a decline in life expectancy of 3 years from 2013 to 2021, as well as the connection of racial and socioeconomic inequities to the life expectancy decline. Common Ground also points to drug overdose, homicide, heart disease, and COVID-19 as explanations for the decreased life expectancy in the region.