Black carbon exposure, socioeconomic and racial/ethnic spatial polarization, and the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE)

Health and Place

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 215-228

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

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Income; Race ethnicity; Residential segregation; Socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON;

BLACK CARBON; ETHNICITY; HEALTH IMPACT; INCOME; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN SOCIETY;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDEX OF CONCENTRATION AT THE EXTREMES; MALE; POLLUTION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY SIZE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN HEALTH;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; BOSTON; CARBON; CENSUSES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84934970680     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.008     Document Type: Article

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