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Preventing adverse health effects and environmental injustices in minority populations and low-income populations exposed to hazardous substances is a priority for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
ATSDR established a Minority Health Initiative in 1987 that focused on the demographic characteristics, health perspectives, health communication patterns, and health professional and community health education needs of disadvantaged and persons of color communities. This effort has evolved into the Agency's Minority Health/Environmental Justice Program, which has four goals:
"...each Federal agency shall make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations...."ATSDR intends for its Minority Health Program to be responsive to the Executive Order. Executive Order of the President on Environmental Justice EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) EPA's Environmental Justice Home Page Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC), Clark Atlanta University |
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