[homeles_ot-l] Environmental Health Disparities in Housing

[Kelly O'Grady]

Environmental Health Disparities in Housing

 

 

The physical infrastructure and housing make human interaction possible and
provide shelter. How well that infrastructure performs and which groups it
serves have important implications for social equity and health. Populations
in inadequate housing are more likely to have environmental diseases and
injuries. Substantial disparities in housing have remained largely
unchanged. Approximately 2.6 million (7.5%) non-Hispanic Blacks and 5.9
million Whites (2.8%) live in substandard housing. Segregation, lack of
housing mobility, and homelessness are all associated with adverse health
outcomes. Yet the experience with childhood lead poisoning in the United
States has shown that housing-related disparities can be reduced. Effective
interventions should be implemented to reduce environmental health
disparities related to housing. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead
of print May 5, 2011: e1-e8

 

Jacobs, D. American Journal of Public Health, May 6 2011, Published ahead of
print; doi:10.2105/AJPH.2010.300058

 

Kelly O'Grady RN MScN
The First Six Years
219 Welland St.
Pembroke, ON Canada K8A 5Y5
Telephone: 613-735-0717
 <mailto:lead at nrtco.net> lead at nrtco.net
www.first6years.org

The First Six Years is a grass roots organization  whose primary mandate is
the promotion of optimal social, physical, and environmental conditions for
the development of healthy productive children.  We achieve this goal
through the use of  environmental monitoring and surveillance, public
advocacy and professional education.

 

We recognize that the first six years of a child's life is an important
period of brain and nervous system development.  Childhood, extending from
the prenatal period to approximately age five years is a time of rapid
growth and development.  This makes children highly susceptible to the toxic
influences of environmental threats such as lead, mercury, PCBs, pesticides
and ionizing radiation.  

 

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