Environmental Injustice and COVID-19: Challenges and Recommendations
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 2641
Special Issue Editor
Interests: socioecological determinants of health disparities; health equity; cultural competence in higher education; health promotion and education; environmental health; rural health; scholarship of teaching and learning; curriculum development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Introduction of harmful contaminants into the environment, whether natural or human made, can damage the quality of air, water, land, and built environment. Inequitable exposure to environmental toxins (e.g., air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, radioactive pollution, hazardous waste, industrial waste, pesticides) among communities of color and marginalized populations (e.g., women and girls, children, rural residents, low-income individuals, the LGBTQ+ population, individuals with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, migrants, and refugees) nationally and globally fuels health disparities and threatens health equity. Moreover, these disparities in the cumulative effects of exposures to environmental toxins are underscored by the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental contamination in the context of health disparities encourages the examination of how environmental racism and injustice intensifies inequities in exposure to environmental pollutants and threatens health equity.
Papers on all topics linked to environmental pollution and environmental justice are encouraged in this Special Issue entitled “Environmental Injustice and COVID-19: Challenges and Recommendations”.
New research papers, case reports, brief reports, methodological papers, articles, systematic reviews, and commentaries are welcome. The Special Issue welcomes manuscripts across multiple fields and that adopt various quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies.
Dr. Anuli Njoku
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- social determinants of health
- racism
- noise pollution
- soil pollution
- indoor air quality
- secondhand smoke
- air pollution
- water pollution
- pharmaceutical waste
- medical waste
- electronic waste
- health equity
- COVID-19
- health disparities
- marginalized
- minority
