Assessing environmental injustice in Kansas City by linking paediatric asthma to local sources of pollution: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A grassroots environmental-justice organisation in Kansas City has been examining the disproportionate exposure to air pollution experienced by residents living fenceline to the largest classification railyard in the USA. Prior analyses showed limited increased risk for asthma exacerbation for patients with asthma living closer to toxic release inventory (TRI) facilities and railyards. In this study, we assessed geographical asthma and environmental disparities, to further explore community-level disparities.

Design

This is a cross-sectional study of population-level asthma rates, which included rates for all asthma encounters and acute asthma encounters (urgent care, emergency department, inpatient admission). Distances from census-tract centroids to nearest TRI f

SUBMITTER: Friedman E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11256072 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature