Community-level exposomics: a population-centered approach to address public health concerns.

ABSTRACT: Environmental factors affecting health and vulnerability far outweigh genetics in accounting for disparities in health status and longevity in US communities. The concept of the exposome, the totality of exposure from conception onwards, provides a paradigm for researchers to investigate the complex role of the environment on the health of individuals. We propose a complementary framework, community-level exposomics, for population-level exposome assessment. The goal is to bring the exposome paradigm to research and practice on the health of populations, defined by various axes including geographic, social, and occupational. This framework includes the integration of community-level measures of the built, natural and social environments, environmental pollution-derived from conventional an

SUBMITTER: Stingone JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10976977 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature