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Ladder Strategy fight's for environmental and social justice.
equal access to clean air, secure housing, economic stability, and healthcare 4 all
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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
STATISTICS
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.
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