TY - JOUR
T1 - Health Disparities in Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease
AU - Brigham, Emily
AU - Allbright, Kassandra
AU - Harris, Drew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Pulmonary health disparities disproportionately impact disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. This article focuses on disparities in disease prevalence, morbidity, and mortality for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumoconiosis, and lung cancer. Disparities are categorized by race, age, sex, socioeconomic status, and geographic region. Each category highlights differences in risk factors for the development and severity of lung disease. Risk factors include social, behavioral, economic, and biologic determinants of health (occupational/environmental exposures, psychosocial stressors, smoking, health literacy, health care provider bias, and health care access). Many of these risk factors are complex and inter-related; strategies proposed to decrease disparities require multilevel approaches.
AB - Pulmonary health disparities disproportionately impact disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. This article focuses on disparities in disease prevalence, morbidity, and mortality for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumoconiosis, and lung cancer. Disparities are categorized by race, age, sex, socioeconomic status, and geographic region. Each category highlights differences in risk factors for the development and severity of lung disease. Risk factors include social, behavioral, economic, and biologic determinants of health (occupational/environmental exposures, psychosocial stressors, smoking, health literacy, health care provider bias, and health care access). Many of these risk factors are complex and inter-related; strategies proposed to decrease disparities require multilevel approaches.
KW - Environmental health
KW - Health disparities
KW - Health equity
KW - Occupational health
KW - Social determinants of health
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ccm.2020.08.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ccm.2020.08.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33153683
AN - SCOPUS:85095434263
SN - 0272-5231
VL - 41
SP - 623
EP - 639
JO - Clinics in Chest Medicine
JF - Clinics in Chest Medicine
IS - 4
ER -