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What Works for Addressing Multiple Environmental Health Burdens, Cumulative Environmental Health Risks and Impacts?

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 11291

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Devon C. Payne-Sturges

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Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: environmental health policy; health disparities; environmental health equity; children's environmental health; environmental health of minority populations; social determinants of health; cumulative risk assessment; biomonitoring; health impact assessment; exposure assessment; risk assessment; environmental regulatory decision making; population vulnerability and susceptibility; pesticides; air pollution; toxic chemicals in consumer products; indoor air; community-based participatory research; environmental public health indicators
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Prof. Dr. Heike Köckler

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Department of Community Health, Hochschule für Gesundheit (University of Applied Science), Gesundheitscampus 6–8, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Interests: environmental justice; healthy urban development; community health; indicators
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is widely recognized that human populations are exposed daily to multiple chemical compounds in our air, food, water and consumer products, as well as noise and radiation, and that many low-income and racial and ethnic minority populations bear a disproportionate share of these exposures and lack access to green and blue resources. Significant research investments have been made to develop methods to assess the combined effects of multiple chemical and nonchemical exposures, and the literature on the cumulative health effects of joint exposure to chemical and social stressors is growing. However, little progress has been made to advance policy responses to scientific findings about cumulative impacts and risk. This Special Issue seeks original research articles, commentaries and systematic reviews on policies, programs, interventions and legislative approaches that are aimed at reducing cumulative (environmental health) risk and multiple environmental health burdens among human populations, particularly among racial/ethnic minority, low-income and marginalized populations. In short, our question is, What works to reduce multiple environmental health burdens, disproportionate impacts and environmental injustice? What works to reduce multiple chemical and nonchemical stressors among communities and human populations? What works to reduce multiple environmental stressors (chemical, physical, biological, social) among communities and human populations? How could interventions be linked to the existing system of (environmental) politics?

Dr. Devon C. Payne-Sturges
Prof. Dr. Heike Köckler
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Multiple burdens, Environmental justice
  • Environmental planning
  • Health-in-all-policies
  • Environmental policy
  • Cumulative risk
  • Cumulative impacts
  • Pollution
  • Community vulnerability

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The Drinking Water Tool: A Community-Driven Data Visualization Tool for Policy Implementation
by Clare Pace, Amanda Fencl, Lauren Baehner, Heather Lukacs, Lara J. Cushing and Rachel Morello-Frosch
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(3), 1419; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031419 - 27 Jan 2022
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The Drinking Water Tool (DWT) is a community-driven online tool that provides diverse users with information about drinking water sources and threats to drinking water quality and access due to drought. Development of the DWT was guided by the Community Water Center (CWC) [...] Read more.
The Drinking Water Tool (DWT) is a community-driven online tool that provides diverse users with information about drinking water sources and threats to drinking water quality and access due to drought. Development of the DWT was guided by the Community Water Center (CWC) as part of the Water Equity Science Shop (WESS), a research partnership integrating elements of community-based participatory research and the European Science Shop model. The WESS engages in scientific projects that inform policy change, advance water justice, and reduce cumulative exposure and disproportionate health burdens among impacted communities in California. WESS researchers conducted qualitative analysis of 15 stakeholder interviews regarding the DWT, including iterative feedback and the stakeholder consultation process as well as stakeholder perceptions of the tool’s impact on California water policy, organizing, and research. Results indicate that the DWT and the stakeholder engagement process which developed it were effective in influencing policy priorities and in promoting interagency coordination at multiple levels to address water equity challenges and their disproportionate burdens, particularly among rural and low socioeconomic status areas and communities of color. Full article
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Sanitation Infrastructure at the Systemic Edge: Segregated Roma Settlements and Multiple Health Risks in Slovakia
by Richard Filčák and Daniel Škobla
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(11), 6079; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116079 - 4 Jun 2021
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This article explores how multiple health risks in municipalities with Roma settlements in Slovakia are related to the varieties of local governance and the authorities’ conduct towards the local Roma population. The first part of the paper describes the situation in Roma settlements [...] Read more.
This article explores how multiple health risks in municipalities with Roma settlements in Slovakia are related to the varieties of local governance and the authorities’ conduct towards the local Roma population. The first part of the paper describes the situation in Roma settlements from the perspective of unequal access to sewerage and water pipelines. Introduced here are data on identified contagious diseases that correlated multiple health risks with the lack of sanitation and/or water infrastructure. The second section of the paper put forth typologies of government approaches towards the Roma, which based on ethnographic fieldwork, allows us to identify factors of attitudinal, structural and policy-oriented nature. Research results point to a “triad” of key circumstances: these are the structural conditions in municipalities and the history of local inter-ethnic relations and attitude of authorities towards Roma. Finally, possible solutions and approaches regarding how to mitigate the multiple health risks are discussed. It is suggested that on the one hand, in many villages there is a profound institutional discrimination of Roma with respect to water and sanitation infrastructure; on the other hand, water services are increasingly becoming an expensive commodity that not everyone can afford. The article concludes with discussion on enabling conditions and ways to ensure access to basic infrastructure in rural Roma communities. The solution is not only a compliance with principles of non-discrimination and existing technical norms and standards but also in securing the accessible funding for construction of the sanitation infrastructure in a smart way, including innovations and operation of cheaper and environmentally responsible sanitation technologies. Full article
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A Cumulative Framework for Identifying Overburdened Populations under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Formaldehyde Case Study
by Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Ilch Yiliqi, Yukyan Lam, David Lennett, Veena Singla, Miriam Rotkin-Ellman and Jennifer Sass
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(11), 6002; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116002 - 3 Jun 2021
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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 [...] Read more.
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. Full article
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