Environmental determinants of health: Measuring multiple physical environmental exposures at the United States census tract level

被引：1

作者：

Peluso, Alina ^{[1
]}

Rastogi, Deeksha ^{[1
]}

Klasky, Hilda B. ^{[1
]}

Logan, Jeremy ^{[1
]}

Maguire, Dakotah ^{[1
]}

Grant, Josh ^{[1
]}

Christian, Blair ^{[1
]}

Hanson, Heidi A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA

来源：

HEALTH & PLACE | 2024年 / 89卷

基金：

美国国家卫生研究院;

关键词：

Environmental determinant of health; Physical environment; Environmental deprivation; US census tract; Multi-exposure environmental index (MEEI); CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE; NOISE-POLLUTION; GREEN SPACE; MORTALITY; US; CANCER; ASSOCIATION; DEPRIVATION; INDEX; TEMPERATURE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103303

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Physical environment plays a key role in determining human health risks. Exposure to toxins, weather extremes, degraded air and water quality, high levels of noise and limited accessibility to green areas can negatively affect health. Furthermore, adverse environmental exposures are often correlated with each other and with socioeconomic status, thereby compounding disadvantages in marginalized populations. Moreover, despite their importance in determining human health risks, the role of multiple environmental exposures is not well studied, and only a few resources contain aggregate environmental exposure data and only for selected areas of the contiguous US. To fill these gaps, we took a cumulative approach to measuring the environment by generating a composite Multi-Exposure Environmental Index (MEEI) as a US Census Tract-level summary of key environmental factors with known health effects. This measure quantifies multiple environmental exposures in the same area that can result in additive and synergistic effects on health outcomes. This information is crucial to better understand and possibly leverage environmental determinants of health for informed policy-making and intervention.

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