Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 7-2016
Journal / Book Title
Family and Community Health
Abstract
Both historic and contemporary factors contribute to the current unequal distribution of lead in urban environments and the disproportionate impact lead exposure has on the health and well-being of low-income minority communities. We consider the enduring impact of lead through the lens of environmental justice, taking into account well-documented geographic concentrations of lead, legacy sources that produce chronic exposures, and intergenerational transfers of risk. We discuss the most promising type of public health action to address inequitable lead exposure and uptake: primordial prevention efforts that address the most fundamental causes of diseases by intervening in structural and systemic inequalities.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1097/FCH.0000000000000106
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Leech, Tamara; Adams, Elizabeth A.; Weathers, Tess D.; Staten, Lisa K.; and Filippelli, Gabriel M., "Inequitable Chronic Lead Exposure: A Dual Legacy of Social and Environmental Injustice" (2016). Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works. 124.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/public-health-facpubs/124
Published Citation
Leech, Tamara GJ, Elizabeth A. Adams, Tess D. Weathers, Lisa K. Staten, and Gabriel M. Filippelli. "Inequitable chronic lead exposure." Family & community health 39, no. 3 (2016): 151-159. Harvard
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