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- June 17, 2025
- vol. 122
- no. 24
- Structural racism has created longstanding conditions for certain racially oppressed groups to die prematurely. While premature death is studied as an end point, considerably less work studies it as a “beginning point” for surviving bereaved ...Though racial disparities in shortened life expectancy have been well established, racial disparities in the burden of bereavement after such premature deaths are severely understudied. This is, in part, due to a lack of measurement tools for ...
- Through the industrial era, pollutants have been unevenly distributed in the environment, disproportionately impacting disenfranchised communities. Redressing the unequal distribution of environmental pollution is thus a question of environmental justice ...
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