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18049181

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-30
pubmed:abstractText
International attention is focusing increasingly on environmental concerns, from global warming and extreme weather to persistent chemical pollutants that affect our food supplies, health and well-being. These environmental exposures disproportionately affect the poor and those residing in developing countries, and may partly explain the persistent social gradients in health that exist within and between nations. We support recent calls for environmental epidemiologists to play a more active role in furthering the global agenda for sustainability, environmental health and equity. We further suggest that the discipline of environmental epidemiology, as well as relevant funding agencies, broaden their focus to include rigorous research on the upstream, larger-scale societal factors that contribute to inequitable patterns of exposure and health outcomes. By widening the scope of our vision and increasing the strength and breadth of the evidence base about how poverty and environment together affect health, we can better participate in efforts to promote social justice and responsible use and protection of the environment, and thus reduce health inequities. That is both a primary mode and rationale for achieving sustainability.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1044-3983
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
664-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Poverty, environment, and health: the role of environmental epidemiology and environmental epidemiologists.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA. marieo@umich.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article