Environmental Health Disparities in Vulnerable Populations
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 8894
Special Issue Editor
Interests: outreach to underserved communities; health disparities; epidemiology of asthma; science education; children’s environmental health; international environmental and occupational health; environmental justice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental pollution is a preventable cause of death and disease that affects vulnerable populations disproportionately. Of annual deaths worldwide, over 1 in 6 is attributable to environmental exposures and most of these deaths occur among the most vulnerable. Because of the high impact that environmental health disparities have on public health, the definition of what makes a population “vulnerable” must be expanded. Some populations are especially vulnerable to environmental contaminants because of intrinsic physiological factors. One example of this type of vulnerability is children who are more susceptible to the effects of exposure to lead at different stages in their development. However, there are also inequities in the conceptualization and implementation of international and local environmental policies that inflict harm disproportionately on marginalized populations. The devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the catastrophic effects of climate change have unmasked and further intensified environmental health disparities in vulnerable populations across the globe. Vulnerable populations often serve as the “canary in the coal mine,” an early warning sign of the urgent need to confront an environmental health threat. For environmental health disparities to be fully understood as a major component of public health, environmental health research must be anchored on social justice principles. The goals of this Special Issue are: 1) to contextualize environmental health research to include social justice, 2) to encourage more environmental health research that seeks to reduce harm in vulnerable populations, and 3) to extend the concept of vulnerability to environmental pollution to be inclusive of diverse populations in countries around the world. We invite papers in the following topics: 1) Ways in which disproportionate exposure to pollution causes disease in vulnerable populations, 2) Socioeconomic, physiologic, policy, race and racism, and other factors that increase the impact of environmental pollution on particular populations; 3) Community-based interventions and solutions that reduce environmental health disparities. 4) Global health policy interventions that address environmental inequalities between countries.
Prof. Dr. Luz Claudio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental justice
- intersectionality
- environmental policies
- health inequalities
- marginalized communities
- socioeconomic factors in health
- pollution mitigation
- inequities in environmental health
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