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414 Housing and Environmental Exposures: A Systematic Literature Review on Research and Policy Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2023

Aarti C. Bhat
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
Andrew Fenelon
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
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Abstract

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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Poor housing conditions and quality can be linked with residents’environmental exposures, which may contribute to a variety of adverse health outcomes. This systematic literature review will examine literature around housing, environmental exposure, and health; and policy implications to reduce the impact of housing on environmental exposures. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: This systematic literature review will identify and evaluate published peer-reviewed articles as well as governmental and NGO policy briefs relating to connections between housing quality and condition, neighborhood characteristics, and environmental exposures (e.g., lead poisoning, secondhand smoke, PFAS chemicals) in the United States; and will particularly focus on health implications of such environmental exposures, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in exposure, and current and future policy recommendations to alleviate the association between housing and environmental risk. A computerized literature search of relevant electronic databases (e.g., PubMed, Sociological Abstracts, EPA database, Congressional database) for literature published after 2000 will be conducted. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The findings from this literature review will be split up into categorizations around (1) the contribution of housing/neighborhoods on resident environmental exposure; (2) geospatial and demographic inequality (historic and current) around housing/neighborhood conditions contributing to disproportionate environmental exposures for low-income and minoritized residents; (3) health implications of environmental exposures; (4) prior policy addressing the connections between housing/neighborhoods and environmental risk; and (5) future policy recommendations to improve housing/neighborhood quality and minimize environmental exposures for residents. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: This project will illuminate connections between housing conditions and environmental exposures, health implications of these exposures, and contribute to advancing understanding of potential policies to reduce adverse environmental health impacts of poor housing conditions for residents (particularly for low-income, minoritized groups).

Type
Science Policy and Advocacy
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