Social stressors and air pollution across New York City communities: a spatial approach for assessing correlations among multiple exposures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent toxicological and epidemiological evidence suggests that chronic psychosocial stress may modify pollution effects on health. Thus, there is increasing interest in refined methods for assessing and incorporating non-chemical exposures, including social stressors, into environmental health research, towards identifying whether and how psychosocial stress interacts with chemical exposures to influence health and health disparities. We present a flexible, GIS-based approach for examining spatial patterns within and among a range of social stressors, and their spatial relationships with air pollution, across New York City, towards understanding their combined effects on health.

Methods

We identified a wide suite of administrative indicators of community-level so

SUBMITTER: Shmool JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4240877 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature