Environmental Justice and Allergic Disease: A Work Group Report of the AAAAI Environmental Exposure and Respiratory Health Committee and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

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• Alternative Title:
  J Allergy Clin Immunol
• Personal Author:
  Burbank, Allison J. ; Hernandez, Michelle L. ; Jefferson, Akilah ; Perry, Tamara T. ; Phipatanakul, Wanda ; Poole, Jill ; Matsui, Elizabeth C.
• Description:
  Environmental justice is the concept that all people have the right to live in a healthy environment, to be protected against environmental hazards, and to participate in decisions affecting their communities. Communities of color and low-income populations live, work, and play in environments with disproportionate exposure to hazards associated with allergic disease. This unequal distribution of hazards has contributed to health disparities and is largely the result of systemic racism that promotes segregation of neighborhoods, disinvestment in predominantly racial/ethnic minority neighborhoods, and discriminatory housing, employment, and lending practices. The AAAAI Environmental Exposure and Respiratory Health Committee and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee jointly developed this report to improve allergy/immunology specialists' awareness of environmental injustice, its roots in systemic racism, and its impact on health disparities in allergic disease. We present evidence supporting the relationship between exposure to environmental hazards, particularly at the neighborhood level, and the disproportionately high incidence and poor outcomes from allergic diseases in marginalized populations. Achieving environmental justice requires investment in at-risk communities to increase access to safe housing, clean air and water, employment opportunities, education, nutrition, and health care. Through policies that promote environmental justice, we can achieve greater health equity in allergic disease.
• Keywords:
  Allergen Allergic Rhinitis Asthma Atopic Dermatitis Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Environmental Exposure Environmental Justice Ethnicity Health Disparities Humans Hypersensitivity Minority Groups Nutrition Obesity Pollution Psychosocial Stress Race Segregation Systemic Racism

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• Source:
  J Allergy Clin Immunol. 151(3):656-670
• Pubmed ID:
  36584926
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9992350
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P30 ES010126/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K24 AI114769/AI/NIAID NIH HHSUnited States/ ; KL2 TR002490/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HL135235/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 OH012045/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U54OH010162/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR002489/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 ES026170/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R34 HL159126/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  151
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:089e1b3a7020b671a7f83643997b3aa35c86b27a53b0e1c11c4a3c9a6bcfe569
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/125648/cdc_125648_DS1.pdf
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