Socioeconomic Disparities and Air Pollution Exposure: A Global Review

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• Alternative Title:
  Curr Environ Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Hajat, Anjum ; Hsia, Charlene ; O’Neill, Marie S.
• Description:
  The existing reviews and meta-analyses addressing unequal exposure of environmental hazards on certain populations have focused on several environmental pollutants or on the siting of hazardous facilities. This review updates and contributes to the environmental inequality literature by focusing on ambient criteria air pollutants (including NOx), by evaluating studies related to inequality by socioeconomic status (as opposed to race/ethnicity) and by providing a more global perspective. Overall, most North American studies have shown that areas where low-socioeconomic-status (SES) communities dwell experience higher concentrations of criteria air pollutants, while European research has been mixed. Research from Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world has shown a general trend similar to that of North America, but research in these parts of the world is limited.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution Environmental Exposure Global Health Hazardous Substances Health Status Disparities Humans Particulate Matter Social Class Social Justice Socioeconomic Factors
• Keywords:
  Air Pollution Criteria Air Pollutants Environmental Inequality Environmental Justice Social Disadvantage Socioeconomic Status
• Source:
  Curr Environ Health Rep. 2(4):440-450
• Pubmed ID:
  26381684
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4626327
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T42 OH008455/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R00 ES023498/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 ES016932/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R18 EH000348/EH/NCEH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; K99 ES023498/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2a95fbc0f64909fc5ed1b1190b5f074aa4ddc5615cb542069f1e3f0789b30520034a17ad503ad3c593b722b5c7d8790a6300186d6cbdc8024cb4084fd58ca2f
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36329/cdc_36329_DS1.pdf
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