Environmental health hazards and social justice : geographical perspectives on race and class disparities / / Florence Margai
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| Autore: |
Margai Florence M.
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| Titolo: |
Environmental health hazards and social justice : geographical perspectives on race and class disparities / / Florence Margai
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| Pubblicazione: | London, U.K. ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Earthscan, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmental health - Social aspects |
| Medical geography - Social aspects | |
| Health and race - Environmental aspects | |
| Poor - Health and hygiene - Environmental aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Environmental Health Hazards and Social Justice Geographical Prespectives on Race and Class Disparities; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part I Themes and Concepts; 1 Geographic Foundations of Environmental Health Hazards: The Need for a Place-based Perspective; 2 Environmental Health and Disease Indicators: Valuation Measures, Transition Frameworks and Burden of Disease Estimates; 3 Population Health Disparities and Social Injustices: Indicators and Spatial Patterns |
| 4 Conceptualization and Measurement of Race, Ethnicity and Class5 Environmental Health Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization: An Overview of Geographic Methodologies; Part II Environmental Aspects of Health Disparities; 6 Global Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: Place Vulnerability and Public Health Challenges; 7 A Spatial Analysis of Emergent and Re-emergent Public Health Risks; 8 Toxic Chemicals: Disparate Patterns of Exposure and Health Outcomes; 9 Geographic Principles of Environmental Justice and Equity | |
| 10 Global Geographies, Environmental Injustice and Health Inequities11 Population Disparities in Water Access, Sanitation and Health Implications; 12 Food Justice, Nutritional Security and Paediatric Health Outcomes; Part III Social and Economic Factors in Population Health Disparities; 13 Poverty, Race and Place: A Triple Whammy Hypothesis for Minority Health Geographies; 14 Globalization, Population Mobility and Immigrant Health Disparities; 15 Group Disparities in Access, Quality and Utilization of Health Resources; 16 Exploring Pathways to Environmental, Health and Social Equity; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book provides geographic perspectives and approaches for use in assessing the distribution of environmental health hazards and disease outcomes among disadvantaged population groups. Estimates suggest that about 40 per cent of the global burden of disease is attributable to exposures to biological and chemical pathogens in the physical environment. And with today's rapid rate of globalization, and these hazardous health effects are likely to increase, with low income and underrepresented communities facing even greater risks. In many places around the world, marginalized communities unwil |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Environmental health hazards and social justice |
| ISBN: | 1-283-58985-0 |
| 9786613902306 | |
| 1-84977-562-1 | |
| 1-136-53782-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464987303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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