Race, wealth, and solid waste facilities in North Carolina

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1344-1350

  Norton, Jennifer M ^a,d   Wing, Steve ^a   Lipscomb, Hester J ^b   Kaufman, Jay S ^a   Marshall, Stephen W ^a   Cravey, Altha J ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d Bureau of Epidemiology Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Environmental justice; Solid waste

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; JUSTICE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34748862991     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10161     Document Type: Article

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