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EDITORIAL
Health and pollution
Air pollution and poverty: Does the sword cut both ways?
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F W Lipfert
Independent Consultant, 23 Carll Court, Northport, New York 00768, USA; flipfert@suffolk.lib.ny.us
Poor people may be more susceptibie, but poverty also fosters increased pollution
Keywords: socioeconomic status; air pollution; poverty
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This issue of the journal includes three papers that touch on relations among socioeconomic status (SES), health, and air quality. Jerrett et al considered whether SES differentials in Hamilton, Ontario, modify the temporal relations between daily mortality and either coefficient of haze (COH) or SO2.1 Martins et al did a similar analysis with respect to PM10 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.2 The third paper, by Gouveia et al, also involved Sao Paulo but examined cross sectional relations between several pollutants and infant birth weight.3 As such, it involves SES factors only implicitly, by virtue of the trends seen by Martins et al2 that link levels of PM10 in Sao Paulo with residence in slums and other SES indicators. Inequitable distribution of environmental impacts within a city or region may raise issues of "environmental justice",* but it may also be possible to get additional insights into the
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