Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners.

ABSTRACT: Air pollution is deleterious to human health, and numerous studies have documented racial and socioeconomic inequities in air pollution exposures. Despite the marginalized status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations, no national studies have examined if they experience inequitable exposures to air pollution. This cross-sectional study investigated inequities in the exposure of same-sex partner households to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in the US. We examined cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs across 71,207 census tracts using National Air Toxics Assessment and US Census data. We calculated population-weighted mean cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs for same-sex male, same-sex female and heterosexual partner households. We used generalized estimating equa

SUBMITTER: Collins TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623125 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature