Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, residential segregation, and spatial variation in noise exposure in the contiguous United States

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Casey, Joan A ^a,b   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^c   Mennitt, Daniel J ^d   Fristrup, Kurt ^e   Ogburn, Elizabeth L ^f   James, Peter ^g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^e NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNICITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; NIGHT; NOISE POLLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH DISPARITY; NOISE; SOCIAL CLASS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85032837959     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP898     Document Type: Article

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