Connecting Environmental Justice and Community Health

Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice

Background: To determine whether estradiol-to-progesterone (E2/P) ratios at the time of embryo transfer (ET) have an effect on implantation and pregnancy in IVF cycles. Methods: 239 women consecutively treated by IVF or ICSI were retrospectively analyzed and early luteal serum E2 and P were measured on the day of ET. Transfer occurred after a variable in vitro culture period ranging from 4–7 da...

Environmental justice: human health and environmental inequalities.

In this review, we provide an introduction to the topics of environmental justice and environmental inequality. We provide an overview of the dimensions of unequal exposures to environmental pollution (environmental inequality), followed by a discussion of the theoretical literature that seeks to explain the origins of this phenomenon. We also consider the impact of the environmental justice mo...

2 Health and Environmental Justice

In the last ten years, research needs and scientific gaps have bee discussed around the efforts of linking environmental exposure disparities to health disparities. This paper provides an argument that links environmental exposure disparities to health disparities. The public health approach is viewed as important in addressing environmental health disparities. Despite progress in addressing re...

Connecting Health Care With Public & Environmental Health

A Critical Review of an Authentic and Transformative Environmental Justice and Health Community — University Partnership

Distressed neighborhoods in North Charleston (SC, USA) are impacted by the cumulative effects of multiple environmental hazards and expansion of the Port of Charleston. The Low Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) built an environmental justice partnership to address local concerns. This case study examines the process of building and sustaining a successful transformative and authenti...