Social equity is a key component of sustainable development. The environmental justice movement recognizes the challenges faced by low-income and racially/ethnically diverse communities. As an amenity that can potentially support the quality of the environmental, social, and health of cities, urban ...
The concepts in health and environmental justice that concerns air quality involve equity vs. equality, the cumulative impact of environmental and social stressors, participatory approaches in environmental decision-making, and the preventive and precautionary principle. Strategies rooted in environmental ...
Overwhelmingly, when it comes to human suffering from chemical exposures, “Environmental Justice Communities,” or “EJ Communities,” whose residents are predominantly of color, and/or low income, are disproportionately impacted [4,5,6]. These communities are burdened by the cumulative effects of ...
Improving health requires social and environmental justice and sustainable development. The 'health for all' movement embraces principles shared by other social movements—in sustainable development, community safety and new economics. These principles include equity, democracy, empowerment of individuals and...
low US health ranking reflects health differences in marginalized populations.Healthcare and sociopolitical factors hinder health in populations.The disregard for structural and environmental awareness fuels health disparities.Changes in education, practice, research, and politics are levers for health equity....
The health community's role in dismantling power structures to achieve health equity should be embraced at each level of society, aligned with Devakumar and colleagues'6 conceptual model from The Lancet Series on racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and health—ie, the individual, community, ...
norms) in epidemiology and public health, both asrisk factorsfor adverse health outcomes and in strategies to promote health and prevent disease. Students focus ondeveloping skills to improve health equity and social justiceincluding how to evaluate and develop multilevel interventions that eliminate bar...
For Health Equity, Location Matters A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice September 18, 2023 — Lauren Gravitz Health Care The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create Se...
Environmental justice is broader in scope than environmental equity (equal treatment and protection under statutes, regulations, and practices), emphasizing the right to a safe and healthy environment for all people, and incorporating physical, social, political, and economic under the heading of ...
Special issue: Environmental and health equity Volume 63January - December 2018Jan - Dec 2018 Issue 9December 2018 Issue 8November 2018 Special issue: Violence, Justice, and Health: Implications for a Multisectoral Collaboration Issue 7September 2018 ...