Black carbon exposure more strongly associated with census tract poverty compared to household income among US black, white, and Latino working class adults in Boston, MA (2003-2010)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-42

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Gryparis, Alexandros ^b   Coull, Brent A ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c Department of Biostatistics and Department of Environmental Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Black carbon; Poverty; Race ethnicity; Socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; HOUSING; SURVEYS;

BLACK CARBON; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; POVERTY; RACE/ETHNICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS;

CARBON;

BLACK CARBON;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK CARBON; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEALTH RISK; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LATINO PEOPLE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POVERTY; RACIAL IDENTITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; POVERTY; RACE/ETHNICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BOSTON; CENSUSES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOOT;

EID: 84898078295     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.03.015     Document Type: Article

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