User:Bob Reginald Ross/Urban heat island

There are many instances of environmental racism, and the urban heat island is no different in Kaitlyn Adams article "The Effect of Urban Heat Island on Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation: How Race Plays a Role" we can through her study that black communities have a higher asthma ED visit compared to the white community. Due to black communities tend to be in more affordable housing in less desirable places which do not have all the accessories the white communities like greens spaces, good air quality, and well- kept housing. This resulted in the black community to be at a bigger risk to asthma and other respiratory problems compared to the white community. Another instance would be Hannah Mosiniak article "Redlining and Urban Heat Islands: An analysis of historic housing discrimination and heat exposure" where it also talks about how lower income communities are more effected by urban heat island effect compared to higher income communities. Based on her study it was found that in the lower income communities it was 2.3 degrees Celsius hoter than higher income communities which mean they are at a higher risk for the health problems which come with urban heat island.

Hsu, A., Sheriff, G., Chakraborty, T. et al. Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities. Nat Commun 12, 2721 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22799-5

KA, MARK, and U. ZL. "The deadly impact of urban heat." Nature 595 (2021): 349.Racism is magnifying the deadly impact of rising city heat (nature.com)

Kaitlyn Adams, Colette Steward Knuth, The effect of urban heat islands on pediatric asthma exacerbation: How race plays a role, Urban Climate, Volume 53, 2024,101833, ISSN 2212-0955, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.101833

Mosiniak, Hannah. Redlining and Urban Heat Islands: An analysis of historic housing discrimination and heat exposure. Diss. 2021.Redlining and Urban Heat Islands: An analysis of historic housing discrimination and heat exposure (umich.edu)Mosiniak, https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/171279

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. This draft content would be a good start for the literature review section of an academic research paper, but needs some editing to fit on Wikipedia. Instead of describing each study explicitly, please revise to make your point, and then cite appropriately using as many sources as you have found. Also, anytime you write about health impacts, please remember that Wikipedia protocols require "review articles" as citations, which review the outcomes of a number of academic articles, rather than single articles. Please refer back to the "Editing health and psychology topics" in week 6 of our course dashboard. I'm happy to discuss either of these point in office hours or in class as needed. Saguaro23 (talk) 04:26, 14 March 2024 (UTC)