Endangered Community, Enduring People

Adeola, Francis O.

doi:10.1177/00139160021972504

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“…10 Other exposures such as poverty, crime and violence could influence the health of some populations disproportionately and may be related to structural factors that are geographic and political. 11,12 In this case, residential segregation that limits opportunities for social mobility constrains some population groups to risky physical environments.…”

Section: Environmentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework

et al. 2015

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Objective: Development of a new framework for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to assess progress and opportunities toward stimulating and supporting rigorous research to address health disparities.Design: Portfolio review of NIA’s health disparities research portfolio to evaluate NIA’s progress in addressing priority health disparities areas. Results: The NIA Health DisparitiesResearch Framework highlights important factors for health disparities research related to aging, provides an organizing structure for tracking progress, stimulates opportunities to better delineate causal pathways and broadens the scope for malleable targets for intervention, aiding in our efforts to address health disparities in the aging population. Conclusions: The promise of health disparitiesresearch depends largely on scientific rigor that builds on past findings and aggressively pursues new approaches. The NIA Health Disparities Framework provides a landscape for stimulating interdisciplinary approaches, evaluating research productivity and identifying opportunities for innovative health disparities research related to aging. Ethn Dis. 2015;25(3):245-254.

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Section: Environmentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Ambient Stressors are a type of chronic Stressor particularly characteristic of environmental Stressors (e.g.. Bell et al, 2001). Ambient Stressors can represent regional conditions of the environment, such as pollution or toxicity, that affect a large number of people but that may not be considered acute because they approximate low-level background noise and may go unnoticed either because they are subtle or because people habituate to them (e.g., Adeola, 2000;Edelstein, 2002). Climate change can be understood as an ambient Stressor encompassing periodic acute Stressor events.…”

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Adapting to and coping with the threat and impacts of climate change.

Reser

Swim

2011

American Psychologist

259

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The article addresses the nature and challenge of adaptation in the context of global climate change. The complexity of 'climate change' as threat, environmental stressor, risk domain, and impacting processes with dramatic environmental and human consequences requires a synthesis of perspectives and models from diverse areas of psychology to adequately communicate and explain how a more psychological framing of the 'human dimensions of global environmental change' can greatly inform and enhance effective and collaborative climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and research. An integrative framework is provided which identifies and considers important mediating and moderating parameters and processes relating to climate change adaptation, with particular emphasis given to environmental stress and stress and coping perspectives. This psychological perspective on climate change adaptation highlights crucial but neglected aspects of adaptation in the climate change science arena. Of particular importance are intra-individual and social psychological adaptation processes which powerfully mediate public risk perceptions and understandings, effective coping responses and resilience, overt behavioral adjustment and change, and psychological and social impacts. This psychological window on climate change adaptation is arguably indispensable to genuinely multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research and policy initiatives addressing the impacts of climate change.

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“…Previous research shows that people living closer to landfill sites suffer from medical conditions such as asthma, cuts, diarrhoea, stomach pain, reoccurring flu, cholera, malaria, cough, skin irritation, cholera, diarrhoea and tuberculosis more than the people living far away from landfill sites [31,32,33,34,35,36]. The causes of the health problems are as a result of continuous exposure to chemicals; inhalation of toxic fumes and dust from the landfill sites.…”

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Health and Environmental Risks of Residents Living Close to a Landfill: A Case Study of Thohoyandou Landfill, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Njoku

Edokpayi

Odiyo

2019

IJERPH

178

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The by-products of solid waste deposited in a landfill has adverse effects on the surrounding environment and humans living closer to landfill sites. This study sought to test the hypothesis that the deposition of waste on landfill has an impact on the surrounding environment and residents living closer to it. This was achieved by evaluating the perception of the respondents drawn from people living close (100–500 m) and far (1–2 km) from the landfill site, concerning environmental issues, health problems, and life satisfaction. Results from the study showed that 78% of participants living closer to the landfill site indicated serious contamination of air quality evident from bad odours linked to the landfill site. Illnesses such as flu, eye irritation and weakness of the body were frequently reported by participants living closer to the landfill than those living far from the landfill. More than half of the participants (56%) living closer to the landfill indicated fear of their health in the future. Thus, the participants living closer to the landfill site were less satisfied with the location of their community with respect to the landfill, than those living far from the landfill site. Therefore, the need for a landfill gas (LFG) utilisation system, proper daily covering of waste and odour diluting agents are necessary to reduce the problems of the residents living closer to the landfill site.

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Endangered Community, Enduring People

Cited by 57 publications

References 35 publications

The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework

The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework

Adapting to and coping with the threat and impacts of climate change.

Health and Environmental Risks of Residents Living Close to a Landfill: A Case Study of Thohoyandou Landfill, Limpopo Province, South Africa

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