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Why environmental racism gets medicalized as personal problems

My son's asthma got worse after they built the highway expansion, but the doctor keeps asking about our family history instead of our zip code.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Healthcare systems individualize symptoms of structural environmental injustice.

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“Where Are You with Environmental justice — who bears the burden?”

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