Human–Environment Interactions and Environmental Justice: How Do Diverse Parents of Asthmatic Children Minimize Hazards?

Grineski, Sara E.

doi:10.1080/08941920802001077

Cited by 7 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 42 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The youth in this study identified environmental hazards that they believed were unique to Homewood and our maps illustrate that these issues were prevalent across black communities in Pittsburgh. They identified micro-level hazards [ 27 ] present in their neighborhoods and on their blocks, and described how it affected their perceptions of their neighborhood and outsiders’ perceptions and responses to the neighborhood. The youth recognized that Homewood residents are disproportionately exposed to negative environmental features and the lack of a formal response to the neighborhoods’ concerns left them to unanimously express the concern that no one cares about their neighborhood.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The existing work on environmental injustices and children has focused largely on toxic exposure (e.g., lead) and its disparate effects on children’s developing bodies [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]; toxic settings that children inhabit within their neighborhoods (e.g., schools) [ 8 , 21 , 22 ]; and on organizing with youth around traditional environmental issues such as pollution and its relationship to health outcomes like asthma [ 23 , 24 , 25 ]. Situating neighborhood environmental disparities as an EJ issue expands beyond traditional environmentalism, which focuses primarily on the preservation of rural, remote natural environments, to recognize that many urban issues are reflective of environmental injustices [ 26 , 27 ]. An EJ framework allows us to examine the neighborhood environmental disparities faced by black youth as one part of an intersection of oppressions that include poverty, spatial segregation, and exposure to environmental hazards; all of which have implications for health and well-being.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Mapping the Racial Inequality in Place: Using Youth Perceptions to Identify Unequal Exposure to Neighborhood Environmental Hazards

Teixeira

Zuberi

2016

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Black youth are more likely than white youth to grow up in poor, segregated neighborhoods. This racial inequality in the neighborhood environments of black youth increases their contact with hazardous neighborhood environmental features including violence and toxic exposures that contribute to racial inequality in youth health and well-being. While the concept of neighborhood effects has been studied at length by social scientists, this work has not been as frequently situated within an environmental justice (EJ) paradigm. The present study used youth perceptions gained from in-depth interviews with youth from one Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood to identify neighborhood environmental health hazards. We then mapped these youth-identified features to examine how they are spatially and racially distributed across the city. Our results suggest that the intersection of race and poverty, neighborhood disorder, housing abandonment, and crime were salient issues for youth. The maps show support for the youths’ assertions that the environments of black and white individuals across the city of Pittsburgh differ in noteworthy ways. This multi-lens, mixed-method analysis was designed to challenge some of the assumptions we make about addressing environmental inequality using youths’ own opinions on the issue to drive our inquiry.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping the Racial Inequality in Place: Using Youth Perceptions to Identify Unequal Exposure to Neighborhood Environmental Hazards

Teixeira

Zuberi

2016

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In this type of socially advantaged context, air pollution may be a relatively important correlate of respiratory problems, even though levels of exposure are typically lower, because the relationship between pollution and health is not complicated by social deprivation and the challenges of poverty. Qualitative inquiry with parents of asthmatic children revealed that while wealthier parents demonstrated a much greater ability to control their children’s home environments than poor parents, they found it quite difficult to protect their children from outdoor air pollution (Grineski, 2009). The emergence of two distinct types of asthmogenic socio-environments where outdoor air pollution exposure exerts a more powerful influence highlights the value of GWR for understanding fine-scale spatial variability in contextual determinants of health problems.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local variability in the impacts of residential particulate matter and pest exposure on children’s wheezing severity: a geographically weighted regression analysis of environmental health justice

2015

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Two assumptions have underpinned environmental justice over the past several decades: 1) uneven environmental exposures yield correspondingly unequal health impacts and 2) these effects are stable across space. To test these assumptions, relationships for residential pest and PM2.5 exposures with children’s wheezing severity are examined using global (ordinary least squares) and local (geographically weighted regression [GWR]) models using cross-sectional observational survey data from El Paso (Texas) children. In the global model, having pests and higher levels of PM2.5 were weakly associated with greater wheezing severity. The local model reveals two types of asthmogenic socio-environments where environmental exposures more powerfully predict greater wheezing severity. The first is a lower-income context where children are disproportionately exposed to pests and PM2.5 and the second is a higher-income socio-environment where children are exposed to lower levels of PM2.5, yet PM2.5is counterintuitively associated with more severe wheezing. Findings demonstrate that GWR is a powerful tool for understanding relationships between environmental conditions, social characteristics and health inequalities.

show abstract

“…Home heat is hypothesized to be important because colder temperatures are associated with increased asthma hospitalizations (Wilson et al , 2005; Ho et al , 2007) and parents of asthmatic children report that when they are unable to adequately heat their home, their children's asthma is affected (Grineski, 2009b). While Southern Texas is warmer in the winter than the Midwestern or Northeastern USA, winter temperatures are still low enough that home heating is an issue, especially considering that homes are not insulated as they are in the North.…”

Section: Data and Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marginalization and health: children's asthma on the Texas‐Mexico border

Grineski

2009

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate children's vulnerability to asthma and its relationship with marginalized locations. More specifically, the effects of zip code level social predictors on children's asthma and their conditionality on location in the Texas‐Mexico border region are explored. The border region is perhaps the most marginalized in the USA.Design/methodology/approachData for analysis comes from the State of Texas and the US Bureau of the Census. Negative binomial regression models are used to predict asthma hospitalizations using a set of social predictors. Then, interaction effects are used to test if social predictors are conditional on border location.FindingsWithin the state of Texas, location in a metropolitan area, location along the US‐Mexico border, percent Hispanic, percent African American and percent Native American are positive and significant predictors of asthma hospitalizations; social class is negative and significant. The effects of proportion of Hispanics who were foreign born, median year of home construction, and percent of homes with inadequate heating are conditional on a zip code's location relative to the US‐Mexico border, with the slopes being steeper in border locations. Findings in general suggest that locational and social factors intersect in marginalized places (i.e. border regions of Texas) to create vulnerability to asthma hospitalizations.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is conducted solely in the USA.Originality/valueAs sociologists continue to consider space as a factor in health inequalities, this paper demonstrates the utility of considering space as operating at more than one scale.

show abstract

Human–Environment Interactions and Environmental Justice: How Do Diverse Parents of Asthmatic Children Minimize Hazards?

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Mapping the Racial Inequality in Place: Using Youth Perceptions to Identify Unequal Exposure to Neighborhood Environmental Hazards

Mapping the Racial Inequality in Place: Using Youth Perceptions to Identify Unequal Exposure to Neighborhood Environmental Hazards

Local variability in the impacts of residential particulate matter and pest exposure on children’s wheezing severity: a geographically weighted regression analysis of environmental health justice

Marginalization and health: children's asthma on the Texas‐Mexico border

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About