Open AccessDrinking Water Violations and Environmental Justice in the United States, 2011–2015
Author(s) -
Yolanda J. McDonald,
Nicole E. Jones
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2018.304621
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , logistic regression , environmental health , population , odds , demography , ethnic group , environmental justice , odds ratio , medicine , political science , sociology , pathology , law
To assess the extent to which drinking water violations in the United States differed on the basis of county race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status using the primary county served by the community water system (CWS) as the unit of analysis and to determine whether counties with higher proportions of underrepresented groups were disproportionately burdened with repeat violations.