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Gender, Ethnicity and Environmental Risk Perception Revisited: The Importance of Residential Location.
- Source :
- Journal of Community Health; Oct2015, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p948-955, 8p, 4 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Studies in the U.S. have found that white men are less concerned about pollution than are women or people of other ethnicity. These studies have not assessed respondents' proximity to localized sources of pollution. Our objective was to assess lay perceptions of risk from air pollution in an ethnically diverse sample in which proximity to a major perceptible source of pollution is known. Cross sectional interview study of combined area probability and convenience sample of individuals 40 and older in the Boston area, selected according to proximity to high traffic controlled access highways. Of 697 respondents 46 % were white, 37 % Asian (mostly Chinese), 6.3 % African-American, 6.3 % Latino, and 7.6 % other ethnicity. While white respondents, and particularly white men, were less concerned about air pollution than others, this effect disappeared when controlling for distance from the highway. White men were slightly less supportive than others of government policy to control pollution. The 'white male' effect may in part be accounted for by the greater likelihood of minority respondents to live near perceptible localized sources of pollution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RISK factors of environmental exposure
PHYSICAL activity
AIR pollution
ASIANS
BLACK people
ENVIRONMENTAL health
FACTOR analysis
HISPANIC Americans
INTERVIEWING
MULTIVARIATE analysis
SENSORY perception
RACE
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
RISK assessment
STATISTICAL sampling
SEX distribution
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
SURVEYS
WHITE people
RESIDENTIAL patterns
CROSS-sectional method
MEDICAL coding
PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00945145
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Community Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109208167
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-015-0017-1