Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States.

Autor: Berberian AG; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, 71-259 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA., Gonzalez DJX; School of Public Health and Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA., Cushing LJ; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, 71-259 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. lcushing@ucla.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current environmental health reports [Curr Environ Health Rep] 2022 Sep; Vol. 9 (3), pp. 451-464. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 28.
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-022-00360-w
Abstrakt: Purpose of Review: Climate change is causing warming over most parts of the USA and more extreme weather events. The health impacts of these changes are not experienced equally. We synthesize the recent evidence that climatic changes linked to global warming are having a disparate impact on the health of people of color, including children.
Recent Findings: Multiple studies of heat, extreme cold, hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires find evidence that people of color, including Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Asian communities are at higher risk of climate-related health impacts than Whites, although this is not always the case. Studies of adults have found evidence of racial disparities related to climatic changes with respect to mortality, respiratory and cardiovascular disease, mental health, and heat-related illness. Children are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change, and infants and children of color have experienced adverse perinatal outcomes, occupational heat stress, and increases in emergency department visits associated with extreme weather. The evidence strongly suggests climate change is an environmental injustice that is likely to exacerbate existing racial disparities across a broad range of health outcomes.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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