Disparities in joint exposure to environmental and social stressors in urban households in Greater Boston.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Understanding how environmental and social stressors cluster is critical to explaining and addressing health disparities. It remains unclear how these stressors cluster at fine spatial resolution in low to medium-income, urban households. We explored patterns of environmental and social exposures at the household-level and potential predictors of these joint exposures in two environmental justice communities in the Greater Boston area.

Methods

We recruited 150 households in Chelsea, MA and the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA, between 2016 and 2019 and collected data on two domains: environmental and social stressor. For each domain, we fit Latent Class Analysis (LCA) models to exposure data to assess intra-domain variability, and cross-classified the resulta

SUBMITTER: Chen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10763609 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature