The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

But Bayview Hunters Point was the only zip code where the number one cause of early death was violence. Right next to Bayview (94124) in the table was the zip code for the Marina district (94123), one of the city’s more affluent neighborhoods. As I ran my finger down the rows of numbers, my jaw dropped. What they showed me was that if you were a parent raising your baby in the Bayview zip code, your child was two and a half times as likely to develop pneumonia than a child in the Marina district. Your child was also six times as likely to develop asthma. And once that baby grew up, he or she was twelve times as likely to develop uncontrolled diabetes.