Workshop Summary: Connecting social and environmental factors to measure and track environmental health disparities

Environmental Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 146-153

  Payne Sturges, Devon ^a   Gee, Gilbert C ^b   Crowder, Kirstin ^c   Hurley, Bradford J ^d   Lee, Charles ^a   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^e   Rosenbaum, Arlene ^f   Schulz, Amy ^b   Wells, Charles ^g   Woodruff, Tracey ^h   Zenick, Hal ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d ICF Consulting   (Canada)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ICF Consulting   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^h Public Health and Environmental Policy Team National Center for Environmental Economics US Environme   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Environmental justice; Health disparities; Indicators; Race ethnicity; Social disparities; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ANN ARBOR; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747886027     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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