Socioeconomic disparities and air pollution exposure: a global review

A Hajat, C Hsia, MS O'Neill - Current environmental health reports, 2015 - Springer
The existing reviews and meta-analyses addressing unequal exposure of environmental
hazards on certain populations have focused on several environmental pollutants or on the …

Environmental health disparities: a framework integrating psychosocial and environmental concepts

GC Gee, DC Payne-Sturges - Environmental health perspectives, 2004 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Although it is often acknowledged that social and environmental factors interact to produce
racial and ethnic environmental health disparities, it is still unclear how this occurs. Despite …

COVID-19 and inequity: a comparative spatial analysis of New York City and Chicago hot spots

AR Maroko, D Nash, BT Pavilonis - Journal of Urban Health, 2020 - Springer
There have been numerous reports that the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic has
disproportionately impacted traditionally vulnerable communities associated with …

Effects of spatial scale on assessment of spatial equity of urban park provision

PY Tan, R Samsudin - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban parks are widely-recognized to provide multiple social and ecological benefits, but an
increasingly number of studies show that such benefits are often inequitably distributed …

Climate change, women's health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership

LC Giudice, EF Llamas‐Clark… - … of Gynecology & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is one of the major global health threats to the world's population. It is
brought on by global warming due in large part to increasing levels of greenhouse gases …

Got green? Addressing environmental justice in park provision

C Sister, J Wolch, J Wilson - GeoJournal, 2010 - Springer
We present a pragmatic approach to assist planners in addressing racial inequities in park
access. Utilizing the Los Angeles metropolitan region as an example, we used Thiessen …

Assessing impacts of mining: Recent contributions from GIS and remote sensing

TT Werner, A Bebbington, G Gregory - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
Mining produces several environmental, social, and economic impacts which can be
analysed spatially using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS) …

Participatory research for environmental justice: a critical interpretive synthesis

LF Davis, MD Ramírez-Andreotta - Environmental health …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Environmental health risks are disproportionately colocated with communities
in poverty and communities of color. In some cases, participatory research projects have …

Green qualities in the neighbourhood and mental health–results from a longitudinal cohort study in Southern Sweden

M Annerstedt, PO Östergren, J Björk, P Grahn… - BMC public health, 2012 - Springer
Background Poor mental health is a major issue worldwide and causality is complex. For
diseases with multifactorial background synergistic effects of person-and place-factors can …