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This topic covers the public health implications of environmental racism and its impact on physical and mental health outcomes of affected populations.

Environmental Health: The study of how environmental factors, such as pollution and toxins, impact human health.
Epidemiology: The study of the incidence, distribution, and determinants of diseases and health conditions within populations.
Environmental Justice: The study of how environmental hazards and risks disproportionately affect marginalized and disadvantaged communities.
Occupational Health: The study of how workplace environments and hazards impact worker health.
Community Health: The study of how social and economic factors impact community health and well-being.
Health Policy: The study of how government and private organizations make decisions that impact public health.
Behavioral Health: The study of how social and behavioral factors impact health outcomes.
Global Health: The study of health systems and health disparities across the world.
Health Equity: The study of how health disparities affect marginalized groups and strategies to address them.
Public Health Ethics: The study of ethical considerations involved in public health issues and decision-making.
Climate Change and Health: The study of how climate change impacts human health and ways to mitigate its effects.
Infectious Disease Control: The study of how infectious diseases spread and how to prevent and control outbreaks.
Health Communication: The study of effective communication strategies for promoting public health and addressing health disparities.
Health Economics: The study of the economic factors that determine access to healthcare and health outcomes.
Health Disparities: The study of differences in health outcomes and access to healthcare between different groups.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The study of strategies to promote healthy behaviors and prevent chronic diseases.
Maternal and Child Health: The study of how pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood impact health outcomes for women and children.
Nutrition and Health: The study of how diet and nutrition impact health outcomes and strategies for promoting healthy eating.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health: The study of how substance abuse and mental health issues impact public health and strategies for prevention and treatment.
Pandemic Preparedness and Response: The study of pandemics like COVID-19 and how to prepare and respond to health emergencies.
Environmental Health: Refers to public health issues related to environmental factors such as air and water quality, hazardous waste disposal, and climate change.
Occupational Health: Focuses on the health and safety of workers within their workplaces.
Epidemiology: Investigating patterns and causes of diseases in populations.
Health Promotion: Engaging with communities to promote healthy lifestyle choices and reduce risk factors.
Mental Health: The promotion of mental health and wellness, prevention of mental illness.
Maternal and Child Health: This focuses on the health of mothers and children, including pregnancy, birth, and childhood development.
Nutrition: This public health area emphasizes proper nutrition and aims to reduce malnutrition and related diseases.
Infectious Disease Control: This includes the prevention and control of infectious and communicable diseases that pose a risk to the public.
Substance Abuse Prevention and Mental Health Services: This focuses on the prevention of substance abuse and mental health concerns in the community.
"Environmental racism, ecological racism or ecological apartheid is a form of institutional racism leading to landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal being disproportionately placed in communities of color."
"It is also associated with extractivism, which places the environmental burdens of mining, oil extraction, and industrial agriculture upon indigenous peoples and poorer nations largely inhabited by people of color."
"Response to environmental racism has contributed to the environmental justice movement, which developed in the United States and abroad throughout the 1970s and 1980s."
"Environmental racism may disadvantage minority groups or numerical majorities, as in South Africa where apartheid had debilitating environmental impacts on Black people."
"Internationally, trade in global waste disadvantages global majorities in poorer countries largely inhabited by people of color."
"It also applies to the particular vulnerability of indigenous groups to environmental pollution."
"Environmental racism is a form of institutional racism, which has led to the disproportionate disposal of hazardous waste in communities of colour in Russia."
"Environmental racism is a type of inequality where people in Communities of Color and other low-income communities face a disproportionate risk of exposure to pollution and related health conditions."
"landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal being disproportionately placed in communities of color."
"Extractivism places the environmental burdens of mining, oil extraction, and industrial agriculture upon indigenous peoples and poorer nations largely inhabited by people of color."
"The environmental justice movement developed in the United States and abroad throughout the 1970s and 1980s."
"Trade in global waste disadvantages global majorities in poorer countries largely inhabited by people of color."
"Environmental racism is a form of institutional racism, which has led to the disproportionate disposal of hazardous waste in communities of colour in Russia."
"Environmental racism may disadvantage minority groups or numerical majorities."
"Environmental racism may disadvantage minority groups or numerical majorities, as in South Africa where apartheid had debilitating environmental impacts on Black people."
"Extractivism, institutional racism, and global waste trade are among the factors contributing to environmental racism."
"The environmental justice movement aims to combat and address the inequalities and injustices caused by environmental racism."
"The environmental burdens of mining, oil extraction, and industrial agriculture are placed upon indigenous peoples."
"People in communities of color and low-income communities face a disproportionate risk of exposure to pollution and related health conditions due to environmental racism."
"Communities of color, indigenous peoples, and low-income communities are often the most affected by environmental racism."