An informed public can press both public officials and private firms to curtail pollution and to reduce environmental disparities.
His research explores health and environmental disparities, social policy, quantitative research on race and ethnicity, and immigration.
Garcia mapped the health and environmental disparities, reached out to health advocates and encouraged people to turn out for public meetings.
Ultimately, the scientific results derived from the research will empower individuals, communities, and agencies to prevent and reduce exposures and to address environmental disparities.
Until an effective health intervention program addresses the distal/macro and immediate/interpersonal barriers, economic, social, and environmental disparities will continue to negatively impact the population.
In comparing potential NPP to current NPP flows, HANPP controls for bioclimatic and environmental disparities when comparing land system change across heterogeneous areas, which renders it a suitable indictor for analyzing drivers of land system change (Erb et al., 2009).
These findings highlight the need to identify and ameliorate racial, socioeconomic, and environmental disparities that may be adversely affecting the health of the particularly vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children (Silbergeld and Patrick 2005).
Despite the paucity of literature available on environmental disparities related to the distribution of Superfund sites in SC, this study has shown that there are burden disparities in the location of these sites for Non-White and low-income populations at the block and census tract levels.
Thus, if such environmental disparities are documented in Belgium, interventions could be targeted at low-income neighborhoods to provide more recreation facilities, improve walking/cycling facilities, enhance aesthetics by planting trees and removing graffiti, increase safety of street crossing, and institute more effective crime control methods.
Papers, presentations, and discussions focused on the use of multilevel analysis to study environmental health disparities, the development of an organizing framework for evaluating health disparities, the development of indicators, and the generation of community-based participatory approaches for indicator development and use.
