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A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study

Extensive scholarship has demonstrated that communities of color, low-income communities, and Indigenous communities face greater environmental and health hazards compared to communities with more White or affluent people. Low-income, Indigenous, Black, and/or other populations of color are also mor...

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Autores principales: Pullen Fedinick, Kristi, Yiliqi, Ilch, Lam, Yukyan, Lennett, David, Singla, Veena, Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam, Sass, Jennifer
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8199872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34205009
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116002
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author Pullen Fedinick, Kristi
Yiliqi, Ilch
Lam, Yukyan
Lennett, David
Singla, Veena
Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam
Sass, Jennifer
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Yiliqi, Ilch
Lam, Yukyan
Lennett, David
Singla, Veena
Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam
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description Extensive scholarship has demonstrated that communities of color, low-income communities, and Indigenous communities face greater environmental and health hazards compared to communities with more White or affluent people. Low-income, Indigenous, Black, and/or other populations of color are also more likely to lack access to health care facilities, healthy food, and adequate formal education opportunities. Despite the mountains of evidence that demonstrate the existence and significance of the elevated toxic social and environmental exposures experienced by these communities, the inclusion of these factors into chemical evaluations has been scarce. In this paper, we demonstrate a process built with publicly available data and simple geospatial techniques that could be utilized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to incorporate cumulative approaches into risk assessments under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The use of these approaches, particularly as they relate to identifying potentially exposed and susceptible subpopulations, would help USEPA develop appropriate risk estimates and mitigation strategies to protect disproportionately burdened populations from the adverse effects of chemical exposures. By utilizing such approaches to inform risk evaluation and mitigation, USEPA can identify and protect those most burdened and impacted by toxic chemicals, and finally begin to close the gap of environmental health inequities.
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spelling pubmed-81998722021-06-14 A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study Pullen Fedinick, Kristi Yiliqi, Ilch Lam, Yukyan Lennett, David Singla, Veena Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam Sass, Jennifer Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Extensive scholarship has demonstrated that communities of color, low-income communities, and Indigenous communities face greater environmental and health hazards compared to communities with more White or affluent people. Low-income, Indigenous, Black, and/or other populations of color are also more likely to lack access to health care facilities, healthy food, and adequate formal education opportunities. Despite the mountains of evidence that demonstrate the existence and significance of the elevated toxic social and environmental exposures experienced by these communities, the inclusion of these factors into chemical evaluations has been scarce. In this paper, we demonstrate a process built with publicly available data and simple geospatial techniques that could be utilized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to incorporate cumulative approaches into risk assessments under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The use of these approaches, particularly as they relate to identifying potentially exposed and susceptible subpopulations, would help USEPA develop appropriate risk estimates and mitigation strategies to protect disproportionately burdened populations from the adverse effects of chemical exposures. By utilizing such approaches to inform risk evaluation and mitigation, USEPA can identify and protect those most burdened and impacted by toxic chemicals, and finally begin to close the gap of environmental health inequities. MDPI 2021-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8199872/ /pubmed/34205009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116002 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pullen Fedinick, Kristi
Yiliqi, Ilch
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Lennett, David
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Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam
Sass, Jennifer
A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
title A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
title_full A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
title_fullStr A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
title_full_unstemmed A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
title_short A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
title_sort cumulative framework for identifying overburdened populations under the toxic substances control act: formaldehyde case study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8199872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34205009
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116002
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