title: Assessment of environmental health children's population living in environmental injustice scenarios.
abstract: We conducted a cross sectional study, involving 145 children randomly selected from three different socioeconomic locations. We selected social, environment and health indicators and measured the prevalence and prevalence odds ratios. Children from the brick producing site (segregation index 5), are exposed to high levels of multiple toxic agents, and showed the highest morbidity rates and malnutrition, anemia, dental fluorosis, and the lowest IQ, followed by children from municipal garbage dump (segregation index 4), where we detected the highest prevalence of dermatological and enteric diseases. Children from the Central Zone (segregation index 2) showed the lowest rates of malnutrition and higher IQ than the other two groups. A unified vision of social, health and environmental indicators opens the possibility of novel intervention programs and a legal framework that specifically protect children against environmental exposures.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of the San Luis Potosí, Av. Venustiano Carranza #2405, C.P. 78210, San Luis Potosí, S. L. P., Mexico. gdomcortinas@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Cortinas
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cifuentes
authors.forename: Edna Rico
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Escobar
authors.forename: Fernando Díaz-Barriga
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Martínez
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002947:Cities; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004782:Environmental Health; D005260:Female; D062306:Geography, Medical; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012935:Social Justice; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors