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Sources: 10 Things to Know about Health Equity

 
1. Jbaily A, Zhou X, Liu J, et al. Air pollution exposure disparities across U.S. population and income groups. Nature, 601, 228-233. 2022.

2. American Lung Association. (2020). Climate change and air pollution. Lung.org. https://www.lung.org/clean-air/climate-change/climate-change-air-pollution

3. DeMetillo, M. A. G., Harkins, C., McDonald, B. C., Chodrow, P. S., Sun, K., & Pusede, S. E. (2021). Space‐based observational constraints on NO 2 air pollution inequality from diesel traffic in major US cities. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(17). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl094333

4. Tessum, C. W., Paolella, D. A., Chambliss, S. E., Apte, J. S., Hill, J. D., & Marshall, J. D. (2021). PM2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States. Science Advances, 7(18). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf4491

5. Lesley Fleishman (Clean Air Task Force) and Marcus Franklin (NAACP). (2017). Fumes Across the Fence-Line: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil & Gas Facilities on African American Communities. https://naacp.org/resources/fumes-across-fence-line-health-impacts-air-pollution-oil-gas-facilities-african-american

6. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. (2021). Asthma and African Americans. Hhs.Gov. https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=15

7. Hsu, A., Sheriff, G., Chakraborty, T., & Manya, D. (2021). Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2721. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22799-5

8. Park, R. J., Behrer, A. P., & Goodman, J. (2021). Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(1), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00959-9

9. Bekkar, B., Pacheco, S., Basu, R., & DeNicola, N. (2020). Association of air pollution and heat exposure with preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth in the US: A systematic review: A systematic review. JAMA Network Open, 3(6), e208243. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8243

10. Wolch, J. R., Byrne, J., & Newell, J. P. (2014). Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough.’ Landscape and Urban Planning, 125, 234–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017

11. World Health Organization. (2016). Urban green spaces and health: A review of evidence. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/321971/Urban-green-spaces-and-health-review-evidence.pdf

12. Graff, M., Konisky, D. M., Carley, S., & Memmott, T. (2021). Climate change and energy insecurity: A growing need for policy intervention. Environmental Justice. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0032  

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