GGR353H5 Chapter Notes -Indoor Air Quality, House Dust Mite, Environmental Hazard
Document Summary
Socioeconomic status and health: the potential role of environmental risk exposure. In this paper we provide an overview of data indicating that income is inversely correlated with exposure to suboptimal environmental conditions. By environmental conditions we mean the physical properties of the ambient and surroundings of children, youth, and families, including pollutants, toxins, noise, and crowding as well as exposure to settings such as housing, schools, work environments, and neighborhoods. Ses is associated with environmental quality and in turn that environmental quality affects health. Hazardous wastes, air pollution, ambient noise, residential crowding, water pollution, housing quality, work environment, educational facilities, and neighborhood quality. Ambient air pollutant exposure reveals similar race and income related trends. In low income countries from the 1970s to the late 1980s, the average levels of suspended particulate matter in cities increased. Cities in middle income and wealthy countries over the same time period witness improved air quality (wealthy counties still had clearly better air quality)