Environmental health hazards and social justice
Subtitle: geographical perspectives on race and class disparities
By: Florence Margai
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London, UK; Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781844078240; 9781844078257
Subjects: Poor; Health and hygiene; Health and race; Social aspects; Environmental aspects; Medical geography; Health Status Disparities; Vulnerable Populations; Poverty Areas; Environmental health; Hazardous Substances; Environmental Health; Residence Characteristics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geographic foundations of environmental health hazards: the need for a place-based perspective; title: Environmental health and disease indicators: valuation measures, transition frameworks and burden of disease estimates; title: Population health disparities and social injustices: indicators and spatial patterns; title: Conceptualization and measurement of race, ethnicity and class; title: Environmental health data collection, analysis and visualization: an overview of geographic methodologies; title: Global climate change and environmental degradation: place vulnerability and public health challenges; title: A spatial analysis of emergent and re-emergent public health risks; title: Toxic chemicals: disparate patterns of exposure and health outcomes; title: Geographic principles of environmental justice and equity; title: Global geographies, environmental injustice and health inequities; title: Population disparities in water access, sanitation and health implications; title: Food justice, nutritional security and paediatric health outcomes; title: Poverty, race and place: a triple whammy hypothesis for minority health geographies; title: Globalization, population mobility and immigrant health disparities; title: Group disparities in access, quality and utilization of health resources; title: Exploring pathways to environmental, health and social equity.