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Ground-Truthing Validation to Assess the Effect of Facility Locational Error on Cumulative Impacts Screening Tools
Citation:
Sadd, J., EricS Hall, M. Pastor, R. Morello-Frosch, J. Hayes, AND C. Swanson. Ground-Truthing Validation to Assess the Effect of Facility Locational Error on Cumulative Impacts Screening Tools. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland, 2015:1-8, (2015).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory’s (NERL’s) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD’s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA’s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
Over the past three decades, a number of researchers in the fields of environmental justice (EJ) and environmental public health have highlighted the existence of regional and local scale differences in exposure to air pollution, as well as calculated health risk and impacts of ambient air quality on the health status of residential populations. The patterns of disparity in cumulative impacts and exposure correlate with several socioeconomic indicators, including race and measures of wealth. Different causal factors contribute to the disparities in health status, but it is probable that differences in exposure to environmental hazards and risk play an important role. in California, there is particularly strong evidence indicating patterns of both disproportionate exposure to air pollution and air toxics and associated health risk among communities of color and lower income groups (e.g. (1-4)). These same highly impacted communities also face challenges associated with social determinants, such as low social and economic status, as well as physchosocial stressors, which make it more difficult to cope with exposure and health disparities.
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GROUND TRUTH VALIDATION _JAMES SADD_RESUBMIT (2).PDF (PDF, NA pp, 604.01 KB, about PDF)Hindawi
