Less attention has been brought to bear on why the symbolic, social, and cultural meanings of unequal environments make a difference for health.
"The question is how do we shift direction, how do we seize the moment?" The issue of school segregation has gotten relatively little federal attention the past few decades, despite a series of court decisions dismantling the promise of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling and schools that in some cases have regressed into separate and unequal environments.
Meanwhile, taxi drivers have cried foul over the unequal regulatory environment.
Low education and low income level are also the potential factors underlying the unequal food environment effects.
So it's easy to get discouraged by the many facts and figures documenting unequal home environments, unequal educational opportunities, and inequality of outcomes.
Long before they have had a chance to produce or not produce goods to which they would be entitled, children in our country receive vastly different, and unequal, supports from their environment.
We identify tensions between efforts to embrace the global 'Community of Science' and the promotion and protection of national and institutional agendas in an unequal global health research environment.
Environmental justice advocacy and research has drawn critical attention to how unequal physical and social environments have lead to health disparities.
In addition, natural selection may have operated at unequal intensities in different environments (e.g. in regions characterized by different levels of pathogen richness or prevalence of specific diseases), leaving heterogeneous signals in the genetic pool of human populations.
At the event, we debated a broad range of issues that children and adolescents face in the digital environment, such as unequal access to technology and connectivity; the relationship between the right to privacy and freedom of expression; the link of the media with social networking; innovation to bring technology access to vulnerable populations; and spaces for participation and innovation.
