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The environmental "riskscape" and social inequality: implications for explaining maternal and child health disparitiesRachel Morello-Frosch
Center for Environmental Studies and Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1150-3. 2006....
Separate and unequal: residential segregation and estimated cancer risks associated with ambient air toxics in U.S. metropolitan areasRachel Morello-Frosch
Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 1943, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:386-93. 2006..32; 95% CI, 1.16-1.51). Results suggest that disparities associated with ambient air toxics are affected by segregation and that these exposures may have health significance for populations across racial lines...
The riskscape and the color line: examining the role of segregation in environmental health disparitiesRachel Morello-Frosch
Department of Community Health, Center for Environmental Studies, School of Medicine, Brown University, Box 1943, 135 Angell Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Environ Res 102:181-96. 2006..We conclude with a discussion of the research and policy implications of understanding how racial residential segregation impacts environmental health disparities...
Our environment, our health: a community-based participatory environmental health survey in Richmond, CaliforniaAlison Cohen
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Health Educ Behav 39:198-209. 2012....
Measuring the success of community science: the northern California Household Exposure StudyPhil Brown
Department of Sociology and Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:326-31. 2012..Peer-reviewed publication and clinical health outcomes alone are inadequate criteria to judge the success of projects in meeting these goals; therefore, new strategies for evaluating success are needed...
Pollution comes home and gets personal: women's experience of household chemical exposureRebecca Gasior Altman
Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Health Soc Behav 49:417-35. 2008..Our findings raise the importance of reporting even uncertain science and underscore the value of a community-based reporting strategy..
Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in healthPhil Brown
Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Sociol Health Illn 26:50-80. 2004..This article employs various elements of social movement theory to offer an approach to understanding embodied health movements, and provides a capsule example of one such movement, the environmental breast cancer movement...
Environmental justice and regional inequality in southern California: implications for future researchRachel Morello-Frosch
College of Health and Human Services, San Francisco State University, Sat Francisco, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:149-54. 2002..The authors propose a political economy and social inequality framework to guide future research that could better elucidate the origins of environmental inequality and reasons for its persistence...
Disentangling the exposure experience: the roles of community context and report-back of environmental exposure dataCrystal Adams
Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Health Soc Behav 52:180-96. 2011..It also shows that to support policy development and/or social change, community-based participatory research efforts must attend to participants' understanding of science...
Workshop summary: connecting social and environmental factors to measure and track environmental health disparitiesDevon Payne-Sturges
Office of Children s Health Protection, US Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg, MC 1107A, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20460, USA
Environ Res 102:146-53. 2006....
Improving disclosure and consent: "is it safe?": new ethics for reporting personal exposures to environmental chemicalsJulia Green Brody
Silent Spring Institute, Newton, MA 0245, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1547-54. 2007..Our discussion is informed by our experience with 120 women in a study of 89 pollutants in homes and by interviews with other researchers and institutional review board staff...
