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Mission
Ladder Strategies and Solutions mission is advocating for equitable and sustainable actions that encompass the interplay of social, racial, and environmental concerns. Our goal is to foster a just and inclusive society for all by promoting fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens. This includes advocating for clean air, sustainable housing, and equal access to healthcare.
Ladder Strategies and Solutions Donated to the Telfair Mammography Fund. The organization provides no cost breast health services to those without insurance or are underinsured. The check, worth $6,000, went towards the cost of breast cancer screening.
Ladder Strategies and Solutions
Date: November 20, 2022
PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
1. Environmental Justice demands the right to participate as equal partners at every level of decision-making, including needs assessment, planning, implementation, enforcement, and evaluation.
2. Environmental Justice calls for universal protection from nuclear testing, extraction, and disposal of toxic/hazardous wastes and poisons and nuclear testing that threaten the fundamental right to clean air, land, water, and food.
3. Environmental Justice affirms the fundamental right to political, economic, cultural, and environmental self-determination of all peoples.
4. Environmental Justice demands that public policy be based on mutual respect and justice for all people, free from any form of discrimination or bias.
How the environment can be a cause of health disparities?
Environmental pollutants can cause health problems like respiratory diseases, heart disease, and some types of cancer. People with low incomes are more likely to live in polluted areas and have unsafe drinking water.
What is the biggest environmental health problem?
Air pollution is now considered to be the world's largest environmental health threat, accounting for 7 million deaths around the world every year. Air pollution causes and exacerbates a number of diseases, ranging from asthma to cancer, pulmonary illnesses, and heart disease.
What are some environmental health disparities?
Environmental health disparities refer to unequal access to a clean and safe environment, which can lead to disparities in health outcomes. Examples include communities exposed to industrial pollution, lack of access to clean water in certain areas, and inadequate waste management in marginalized communities.
What are the five issues of disparity in the healthcare industry?
The five issues of disparity in the healthcare industry are:
1. Access to care
2. Cost of care
3. Health outcomes
4. Social factors
5. Impact of communicable diseases like COVID-19
Environmental justice is a social
movement addressing the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to difficulties associated with resource extraction, hazardous waste, and other land uses. The impacts of climate change are largely determined by the population's vulnerability and resilience. Thus, they are more likely to be felt disproportionately by those who suffer from socioeconomic inequalities. In the United States, people of color are found to be more vulnerable to heatwaves, extreme weather events, environmental degradation, and subsequent labor market dislocations.
Our studies show multiple measures of socioeconomic status (SES) independently associated with health. Education, income, assets, and occupation have independent and compounding effects over the life course; and, race and SES affect health in overlapping and independent effects.
SES differences in health exist for almost all health measures, across all nations, and across time. Though people with higher incomes have health problems too, those at the bottom suffer disproportionately poor health.
SES in childhood also impacts adult health, regardless of adult SES. Socioeconomic status exposes one to psychosocial and material conditions that affect the life course, making SES an important determinant of health.
Mass Incarceration
Recidivism
The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but holds almost 25% of the world’s prisoners. The racial makeup in our prisons is also disproportionate. Black people represent 12% of the U.S. adult population, but 33% of the prison population, while white individuals make up 64% of the adult population and 30% of prisoners. Donors can play a critical role in advancing criminal justice reform, from ending mass incarceration to addressing disparities. Bookmark this page; it serves as your launchpad to learn, connect, and take action.
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