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  Vol. 283 No. 23, June 21, 2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Poor Children Subject to "Environmental Injustice"

M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 2000;283:3057-3058.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Boston—A number of toxins, such as lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and organophosphate pesticides are disproportionately concentrated in environments where disadvantaged children live, said Philip Landrigan, MD, chair of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, at the joint meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies and American Academy of Pediatrics. "As it turns out, many of the children who are most heavily exposed in our society to environmental toxins are the same children who are poor, the same children who have either no access or inadequate access to medical care."

The notion that there exist disparities in the level of protection from environmental health hazards among children and adults of different races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds is called environmental injustice, said Landrigan.


LEAD STILL A PROBLEM

Lead exposure provides one example of this sort of inequity. A . . . [Full Text of this Article]







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