Environmental justice screening tools: Implications for nursing

Amiri, Azita; Shuang, Zhao

doi:10.1111/phn.12593

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“…EJ is defined as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies” (EPA, ). Nurses have played an important role in developing EJ body of knowledge and linking it to health disparities (Adams et al, ; Amiri & Zhao, , ; Flaskerud et al, ; Lee et al, ). EJ research aims to identify the relationship between the disproportionate burden of environmental risks associated with those underrepresented in decision‐making, racially diverse, marginalized, and disadvantaged populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Advancing the symptom science model with environmental health

Castner¹,

Amiri

Rodriguez

et al. 2019

Public Health Nursing

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Objective: Globally, indoor and outdoor pollutants are leading risk factors for death and reduced quality of life. Few theories explicitly address environmental health within the nursing discipline with a focus on harmful environmental exposures. The objective here is to expand the National Institutes of Health Symptom Science Model to include the environmental health concepts of environmental endotype (causative pathway) and environmental exposure. Design: Meleis' research to theory strategy for theory refinement was used. Research workshop proceedings, environmental health nursing research expert consensus, panelist research trajectories, and review of the literature were utilized as data sources. Results: Ongoing emphasis on the physical environment as a key determinant of health and theoretical perspectives for including environmental exposures and endotypes in symptom science are presented. Definitions of these concepts, further developed, are provided. Recommendations to strengthen environmental health nursing research and practice through capacity building/infrastructure, methods/outcomes, translational/clinical research, and basic/mechanistic research are included. Conclusion: The revised model deepens theoretical support for clinical actions that include environmental modification, environmental health education, and exposure reduction. This modification will enable a middle-range theory and shared mental model to inspire the prioritization of environmental health in nursing leadership, research, practice, and education. K E Y W O R D S endotype, Environmental Health Science, environmental justice, exposure, nursing theory, Symptom Science Model | 717 CASTNER ET Al.

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confidence: 99%

Advancing the symptom science model with environmental health

Castner¹,

Amiri

Rodriguez

et al. 2019

Public Health Nursing

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“…For nurses to effectively address EJ through education strategies, authors note that nurses need to educate themselves about environmental pollutants, their health impacts, and how to assess and communicate environmental burdens with marginalized populations and the general public (Amiri & Zhao, 2019b;Downs et al, 2006;Valentine-Maher et al, 2018). Recommendations for nursing education were identified that included: incorporate conceptual frameworks in support of the development of an EJ practice that reflects the increased globalization of communities (Postma, 2006), climate justice (Lilienfeld et al, 2018), and expose students to climate stewardship and injustices through local, national, and international service opportunities (Nicholas & Breakey, 2017).…”

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“…Nurse authors promoted the idea of nursing EJ strategies that engage local, state, and federal government officials to advocate for policy-level solutions (Amiri & Zhao, 2019b;Hackley et al, 2007;Huntington-Moskos et al, 2016;Nicholas & Breakey, 2017;Travers et al, 2019), and suggest partnership with other health and policy professionals (Amiri & Zhao, 2019b;Castner et al, 2019). Valentine-Maher et al (2018) specifically suggest advocacy for the reduction in income inequality and policy to address the disproportionate risk of chemical exposures in poor and underserved communities.…”

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Nursing strategies for environmental justice: A scoping review

LeClair

Watts

Zahner

2020

Public Health Nursing

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Objective: To describe types of strategic actions nurses take to promote environmental justice (EJ) through research, education, advocacy, and practice (REAP) reported in peer-reviewed literature. Design and Sample:A scoping review of literature was conducted that described EJ nursing strategies and included nurses listed as authors, subjects, partners, or organizational members. The sample consisted of 35 articles, representing 24 primary research studies and 11 nonresearch articles. Data were separately analyzed by research and nonresearch articles for a clearer understanding of evidence-based strategies within domains of REAP. Results: Articles in the sample highlighted the importance of authentic community partnership and represented diversity of nursing strategies that addressed a range of environmental exposures and subsequent health and racial inequities. Climate justice, a concept that emerged from the EJ movement and intersects with planetary health, is a recent focus in professional nursing. Conclusions: This scoping review establishes an understanding of the extent of nursing knowledge and research in EJ and lays the groundwork for further research on effective EJ nursing strategies. Community-Based Participatory Research/ Participatory Action Research methods are fundamental for EJ research, and further theoretical development is needed to guide evaluation of EJ nursing strategies for education, advocacy, and practice.

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“…Typically, variables combine environmental stressors with sociodemographic characteristics and there is increasing interest in developing tools that can capture cumulative socio-environmental disparities at the most local scales (Sadd et al, 2011). Ongoing work on producing EJ metrics is carried out by several U.S. governmental entities and non-profit organizations, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Health, the National Library of Medicine and the Environmental Working Group, most of which are continuously developed and updated (Amiri and Zhao, 2019). A relatively simple and popular tool is EJSCREEN, a mapping and data reporting tool by EPA that links environmental and demographic indicators in the US, in the form of EJ indexes (EPA, 2016).…”

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Investigating Links Among Urban Sprawl and Environmental Justice Indicators in US Territories

Tsoulou

2018

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Sprawl often characterizes unsustainable, car-dependent, and low-density urban development at the edges of cities. Much research has documented the relationship among sprawl and air pollutant concentrations and many studies have addressed sprawl's social implications, especially for low-income and minority groups. However, limited research has investigated the links between areas with increased levels of sprawl and air pollution, where vulnerable populations reside. This paper brings together the refined sprawl dataset from Smart Growth America and selected environmental justice indicators on air pollution-ozone and air toxicsfrom the US Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN), in a national-level analysis of U.S. territories. Through Pearson correlations and a series of logistic regressions, the significant connection of sprawl and ozone concentrations is shown, in areas with more low-income, and less educated groups with higher percentages of children. On the other hand, while air toxics cancer risk is higher in areas with low-income, and linguistically isolated racial minorities, it has lower levels in more sprawled areas. Upon a closer look, it is shown that only selected dimensions of compactness link to higher cancer risk, while aspects such as a higher mix of jobs may have a reverse effect on it. These findings provide new directions in the ongoing discussion of sustainable urban development patterns and suggest that the focus should be on development that can promote better air quality, while simultaneously reducing social vulnerability to environmental challenges, with additional benefits for local innovation and community building.

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Environmental justice screening tools: Implications for nursing

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Advancing the symptom science model with environmental health

Advancing the symptom science model with environmental health

Nursing strategies for environmental justice: A scoping review

Investigating Links Among Urban Sprawl and Environmental Justice Indicators in US Territories

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