The Flint water crisis

BJ Pauli - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Flint water crisis is one of the most significant environmental contamination events in
recent American history. In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, while under the control of …

Intersectional trauma: COVID-19, the psychosocial contract, and America's racialized public health lineage.

JM Ezell, S Salari, C Rooker, EC Chase - Traumatology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
This comparative review explores how, during COVID-19 and recent American public health
disasters, including the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane …

Black-White achievement gap: Role of race, school urbanity, and parental education

S Assari, A Mardani, M Maleki, S Boyce… - … health, medicine and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Recent research on Marginalization-related Diminished Returns (MDRs) has
documented weaker boosting effects of parental educational attainment on educational …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic determinants of systolic blood pressure; minorities' diminished returns

S Assari - Journal of health economics and development, 2019 - hedjournal.com
Background: Although socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with better health, the
protective effects of high SEP may be smaller for racial and ethnic minorities than Whites, as …

[HTML][HTML] Parental educational attainment and academic performance of American college students; Blacks' diminished returns

S Assari - Journal of health economics and development, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background. As suggested by the Minorities' Diminished Returns (MDR) theory,
socioeconomic status (SES) systemically results in smaller outcomes for non-Whites …

Mental health impacts of environmental exposures: a scoping review of evaluative instruments

E Baker, CF Barlow, L Daniel, C Morey… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
To date, much of the health focus of environmental policy has been on preventing physical
health impacts of environmental exposures. Recent research has however highlighted …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring community psychosocial stress related to per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: lessons learned from a qualitative study

EE Calloway, AL Chiappone, HJ Schmitt… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore the per-and poly-fluoroalkyl
substances (PFAS) exposure experience and associated stressors, to inform public health …

Psychological consequences of the Flint Water Crisis: A scoping review

SK Brooks, SS Patel - Disaster Medicine and Public Health …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objective: To summarize existing literature on the mental health impact of the Flint Water
Crisis. Methods: In March 2020, we searched 5 databases for literature exploring the …

Chronic environmental contamination: A narrative review of psychosocial health consequences, risk factors, and pathways to community resilience

D Sullivan, HJ Schmitt, EE Calloway, W Clausen… - Social Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
A body of psychological and social scientific evidence suggests that the experience of
technological disaster or long-term exposure to environmental contamination can be …

[HTML][HTML] Parental educational attainment, the superior temporal cortical surface area, and reading ability among American children: a test of marginalization-related …

S Assari, S Boyce, M Bazargan, A Thomas, RJ Cobb… - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Recent studies have shown that parental educational attainment is associated
with a larger superior temporal cortical surface area associated with higher reading ability in …