Two Places, One Problem: How Segregation at Home and Work Shapes Pollution Exposure

Two Places, One Problem: How Segregation at Home and Work Shapes Pollution Exposure | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Two Places, One Problem: How Segregation at Home and Work Shapes Pollution Exposure Priyanka deSouza, Shin Bin Tan, Zoe Haskell-Craig, Kirk Hohsfield, and 10 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7115011/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Structural racism is a fundamental driver of health disparities, partly because it leads to residential segregation and associated disparities in adverse exposures. However, only considering residences omits the influence of workplaces, which themselves may be segregated because of residential segregation and societal factors that influence how people are distributed across occupations. Using a dataset that provides home and workplace locations of ~95% of the U.S. workforce, we report associations between workplace-based White-Black segregation and census tract-level ambient pollutant concentrations in metropolitan statistical areas for 2018. Regressions that controlled for multiple covariates and residential segregation demonstrated that a standard deviation increase in workplace segregation is associated with a 0.10 (95% CI: 0.08, 0.11) ppb and 0.08 (95% CI: 0.002, 0.013) μg/m 3 increase in NO 2 and PM 2.5 , respectively. Our work highlights a previously unrecognized pathway through which structural racism may impact environmental disparities. Earth and environmental sciences/Environmental sciences Earth and environmental sciences/Environmental social sciences Health sciences/Risk factors Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Supplementary Files SIPM25NO2segregationexposure1.docx Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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