Green space and health equity: a systematic review on the potential of green space to reduce health disparities

A Rigolon, MHEM Browning, O McAnirlin… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Disadvantaged groups worldwide, such as low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized
people, experience worse health outcomes than more privileged groups, including wealthier …

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 …

Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income groups

A Jbaily, X Zhou, J Liu, TH Lee, L Kamareddine… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Air pollution contributes to the global burden of disease, with ambient exposure to fine
particulate matter of diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2. 5) being identified as the fifth …

Historical redlining is associated with present-day air pollution disparities in US cities

HM Lane, R Morello-Frosch, JD Marshall… - … science & technology …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Communities of color in the United States are systematically exposed to higher levels of air
pollution. We explore here how redlining, a discriminatory mortgage appraisal practice from …

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities

A Hsu, G Sheriff, T Chakraborty, D Manya - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities
suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed …

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

M Marmot - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
In Aldous Huxley's dystopia, Brave New World, there were five castes. The Alphas and Betas
were allowed to develop normally. The Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons were treated with …

Disparities in air pollution exposure in the United States by race/ethnicity and income, 1990–2010

J Liu, LP Clark, MJ Bechle, A Hajat… - Environmental …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Few studies have investigated air pollution exposure disparities by
race/ethnicity and income across criteria air pollutants, locations, or time. Objective: The …

[BOOK][B] Reaching and teaching students in poverty: Strategies for erasing the opportunity gap

PC Gorski - 2017 - books.google.com
This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators
need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement …

Urban heat management and the legacy of redlining

B Wilson - Journal of the American Planning Association, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Historical patterns of discrimination and
disinvestment have shaped the current landscape of vulnerability to heat in US cities but are …

Historical red-lining is associated with fossil fuel power plant siting and present-day inequalities in air pollutant emissions

LJ Cushing, S Li, BB Steiger, JA Casey - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Stationary sources of air pollution are disproportionately located in communities of colour,
but the causes for this disparity are unclear. Here we assess whether racialized appraisals …