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Soziale Ungleichheit bei umweltbezogener Gesundheit: Erklärungsansätze aus umweltepidemiologischer Perspektive

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Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit

IDie Tatsache, dass materielle Faktoren, die natürliche wie auch die anthropogen gestaltete, gebaute Umwelt die Gesundheit beeinträchtigen bzw. gesundheitsförderlich/salutogen wirken können, ist hinlänglich bekannt und wurde von verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen in unterschiedlicher Tiefe aufgegriffen und untersucht. Auf Basis der „Global Burden of Disease“- Methodik wurde – sofern es die Datenlage epidemiologischer Studien zuließ – das bestimmten Umweltfaktoren zuschreibbare Krankheits- und Mortalitätsrisiko quantifiziert (Valent et al. 2004). Die Auswirkungen der Wohnbedingungen und des Wohnumfeldes auf die Gesundheit sind ein wichtiger Themenschwerpunkt von Public Health: „[…] housing is best viewed as a catch-all term for the myriad and multidimensional ways in which our conditions of living – physical, proximate, emotional, and social – can affect health.“ (Shaw 2004: 414) Insbesondere in der Stadtplanung und Ökologischen Psychologie besteht ein umfangreiches Wissen zum Zusammenhang zwischen gebauter Umwelt und Wohlbefinden, Lebensqualität und Gesundheit (Trojan & Legewie 2001).

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Bolte, G., Kohlhuber, M. (2009). Soziale Ungleichheit bei umweltbezogener Gesundheit: Erklärungsansätze aus umweltepidemiologischer Perspektive. In: Richter, M., Hurrelmann, K. (eds) Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91643-9_5

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