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

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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