Public Health Science Program, University of Maryland, 255 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Environmental Science and Technology Department, University of Maryland, 1451 Animal Science Bldg, College Park, MD 20742-2315, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jan 26;16(3):348. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16030348.
Maryland residents' knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited, partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across sociodemographic groups. This study discusses the development of the Maryland EJSCREEN (MD EJSCREEN) tool by the National Center for Smart Growth in partnership with faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The tool assesses environmental justice risks similarly to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) EJSCREEN tool and California's tool, CalEnviroScreen 3.0. We discuss the architecture and functionality of the tool, indicators of importance, and how it compares to USEPA's EJSCREEN and CalEnviroScreen. We demonstrate the use of MD EJSCREEN through a case study on Bladensburg, Maryland, a town in Prince George's County (PG) with several environmental justice concerns including air pollution from traffic and a concrete plant. Comparison reveals that environmental and demographic indicators in MD EJSCREEN most closely resemble those in EPA EJSCREEN, while the scoring is most similar to CalEnviroScreen. Case study results show that Bladensburg has a Prince George's environmental justice score of 0.99, and that National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) air toxics cancer risk is concentrated in communities of color.
马里兰州居民对环境危害及其健康影响的了解有限，部分原因是缺乏工具来绘制和可视化社会人口群体中风险因素的分布。本研究讨论了马里兰州 EJSCREEN（MD EJSCREEN）工具的开发，该工具由国家智能增长中心与马里兰大学公共卫生学院的教师合作开发。该工具通过评估环境正义风险，类似于美国环境保护署（USEPA）的 EJSCREEN 工具和加利福尼亚州的 CalEnviroScreen 3.0 工具。我们讨论了工具的架构和功能、重要性指标以及它与 USEPA 的 EJSCREEN 和 CalEnviroScreen 的比较。我们通过对马里兰州布莱登斯堡的案例研究展示了 MD EJSCREEN 的使用，布莱登斯堡是乔治王子县（PG）的一个城镇，存在交通和混凝土工厂造成的空气污染等多个环境正义问题。比较结果表明，MD EJSCREEN 中的环境和人口指标最接近 USEPA EJSCREEN 中的指标，而评分则与 CalEnviroScreen 最相似。案例研究结果表明，布莱登斯堡的乔治王子环境正义得分为 0.99，国家空气毒物评估（NATA）空气毒物致癌风险集中在有色人种社区。
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