ArticleAnnals of the American Association of Geographers2017
Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Environmental Injustice: Unequal Carcinogenic Air Pollution Risks in Greater Houston.
Article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Inequalities in Environmental Cancer Risk and Carcinogen Exposures: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- New directions in understanding the role of environmental contaminants in child development: Four themes.New directions for child and adolescent development · 2020Review
- Distributional Environmental Injustices for a Minority Group without Minority Status: Arab Americans and Residential Exposure to Carcinogenic Air Pollution in the US.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Impact of transient truck and train traffic on ambient air and noise levels in underserved communities.Transportation research. Part D, Transport and environment · 2018Article
- Differences by Sexual Orientation in Perceptions of Neighborhood Cohesion: Implications for Health.Journal of community health · 2018Article
- Geographic and social disparities in exposure to air neurotoxicants at U.S. public schools.Environmental research · 2018Article
- Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Disparate residential hazard exposures based on disadvantaged gender status (e.g., among female-headed households) have been documented in the distributive environmental justice literature, yet no published studies have examined whether disproportionate environmental risks exist based on minority sexual orientation. To address this gap, we use data from the US Census, American Community Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency at the 2010 census tract level to examine the spatial relationships between same-sex partner households and cumulative cancer risk from exposure to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) emitted by all ambient emission sources in Greater Houston (Texas). Findings from generalized estimating equation analyses demonstrate that increased cancer risks from HAPs are significantly associated with neighborhoods having relatively high concentrations of resident same-sex partner households, adjusting for geographic clustering and variables known to influence risk (i.e., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, renter status, income inequality, and population density). However, HAP exposures are distributed differently for same-sex male versus same-sex female partner households. Neighborhoods with relatively high proportions of same-sex male partner households are associated with significantly greater exposure to cancer-causing HAPs while those with high proportions of same-sex female partner households are associated with less exposure. This study provides initial empirical documentation of a previously unstudied pattern, and infuses current theoretical understanding of environmental inequality formation with knowledge emanating from the sexualities and space literature. Practically, results suggest that other documented health risks experienced in gay neighborhoods may be compounded by disparate health risks associated with harmful exposures to air toxics.
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