Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law.
Health Place
; 88: 103277, 2024 Jul.
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| ID: mdl-38781859
ABSTRACT
Residential segregation drives exposure and health inequities. We projected the mortality impacts among low-income residents of leveraging an existing 10% affordable housing target as a case study of desegregation policy. We simulated movement into newly allocated housing, quantified changes in six ambient environmental exposures, and used exposure-response functions to estimate deaths averted. Across 1000 simulations, in one year, we found on average 169 (95% CI 84, 255) deaths averted from changes in greenness, 71 (49, 94) deaths averted from NO2, 9 (4, 14) deaths averted from noise, 1 (1, 2) excess death from O3, and 2 (1, 2) excess deaths from PM2.5, with rates of deaths averted highest among non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White residents. Strengthening desegregation policy may advance environmental health equity.
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MEDLINE
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Pobreza
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Evaluación del Impacto en la Salud
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Humans
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America do norte
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En
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Health Place
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EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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2024
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Article