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COMMUNITY STRESSORS AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AIR POLLUTION IN URBAN ASTHMA
Impact/Purpose:
Our overall goal is to understand relative spatial distributions in key community level psychosocial stressors and air pollution exposures across New York City, and to examine their separate and synergistic effects on childhood asthma exacerbation.
Description:
Given our large sample size within and across communities, our unique data on year-round fine-scale variability in multiple air pollutants, and our strong experience in community –based environmental health education and outreach, we believe that our study will provide critical data towards better understanding differential susceptibility to air pollution by social stressors. The project will provide a valuable template for examining combined effects of social and physical exposures on health, to be applied to other health outcomes. WE ACT’s commitment to community knowledge and empowerment ensures the timely dissemination of results in a useful, meaningful manner to NYC communities.