#geographicinequality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geographicinequality, aggregated by home.social.
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The agency’s proposed rule would loosen limits on #EthyleneOxide #emissions from around 90 commercial sterilization facilities across the country. Roughly 2.3 million people live within two miles of these facilities in what are often #LowIncome neighborhoods or #CommunitiesOfColor, according to an analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental group.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #GeographicInequality #regulations #health #PublicHealth #safety
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#ChronicIllnesses thrive in a sink-or-swim #culture, w/the US gov spending far less than peer countries on #PreventiveMedicine & #SocialWelfare generally. Breakthroughs in #technology, #medicine & #nutrition that should be boosting average life spans have instead been overwhelmed by #poverty, #racism, #distrust of the #MedicalSystem, fracturing of #social networks & #unhealthy #diets built around highly #ProcessedFood, researchers told The Post.
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This phenomenon is exacerbated by the country’s #economic, #political & #racial divides. #America is increasingly a country of haves & have-nots, measured not just by bank accts & property values but also by vital signs & grave markers. Dying prematurely… has become the most telling measure of the nation’s growing #inequality.
…early deaths (are) an extreme manifestation of an underlying deterioration of #health & a failure of the #HealthSystem to respond.
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Even before the pandemic…
Sickness & death were/are scarring entire communities…. In a quarter of the nation’s counties, mostly in the #South & #Midwest, working-age people are dying at a higher rate than 40 years ago….Deaths of adults 35-64 are concentrated in the nation’s interior, including #Appalachia, the #MississippiDelta & parts of the Midwest. In recent decades, death rates have been rising in the interior while declining in coastal regions.
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#LifeExpectancy in the U.S. has been declining since 2014.
The #American #diet, #HealthCare system & #poverty have contributed to an epidemic of #ChronicIllness, a Post examination found.
More adults are dying in their prime.
5-10% of all #US #children have developed #FattyLiverDisease. Before the early 2000s, it almost exclusively affected adults, particularly heavy drinkers.
#FoodDeserts #Nutrition #Accessibility #Affordability #GeographicInequality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/ -
Quantifying Generational And Geographical Inequality Of Climate Change
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35690-8 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climatechange #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #heating #warming #globalwarming #metrics #demographic #costs #economic #noneconomic #humancost #publichealth #climateniche #climate #model #modeling #MAT #SSP #ssp2 #ssp2023 #poverty #povertyrates #impacts #riskassessment #communityimpact #respect #people #future #pollution #emmisions #co2 #humanhealth #humancost #humanfactors #equality #humanclimateniche #geography #geographicinequality #generationinequality #generational #generations #experience #change #climate #weather #water #publichealth #watersecurity #communityimpact #global #globalhealth