A Method to screen U.S. environmental biomonitoring data for race/ethnicity and income-related disparity

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Belova, Anna ^a   Greco, Susan L ^a   Riederer, Anne M ^b   Olsho, Lauren E W ^a   Corrales, Mark A ^c  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Dichlorophenol; Environmental justice; Ethnicity; Income; Metals; NHANES; Phthalates; Race

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOL; 2,5 DICHLOROPHENOL; ANTIMONY; BARIUM; BUTYLTIN DERIVATIVE; CESIUM; COBALT; COTININE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; MERCURY; METHYL PARABEN; OXYBENZONE; PERCHLORATE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIETHYL ESTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROPYL PARABEN; THALLIUM; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTANT;

BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHNICITY; INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHENOL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; GEOMETRIC MEAN RATIO; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; INCOME; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POVERTY; POVERTY INCOME RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SCREENING; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MEXICAN AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOXICITY;

UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892774594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-114     Document Type: Article

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