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Community Health Equity Res Policy
. 2025 Sep 25:2752535X251383183.
doi: 10.1177/2752535X251383183. Online ahead of print. Inadequate Indoor Air Quality and Household Overcrowding Predispose to Life-Threatening Pulmonary Infections: Call for Action
Malvika Kaul 1 , Israel Rubinstein 1 2 3
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We propose that stakeholders should develop an economically sustainable, public health intervention to improve indoor air quality and to reduce overcrowding in households of underserved U.S. rural, urban and suburban residents exposed to life-threatening respiratory infections, such as caused by coronavirus disease 2019, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus. We posit that a multifaceted community-based intervention in these households would improve social inequities, promote health justice, and reduce health care expenditure. However, this call for action would require an interdisciplinary, coordinated, and sustainable action plan devised by federal, state, county, and city government departments and agencies in close collaboration with and input from local community leaders, members, and residents.
Keywords: air pollution; health equity; poverty; race; social determinants of health; ventilation.
. 2025 Sep 25:2752535X251383183.
doi: 10.1177/2752535X251383183. Online ahead of print. Inadequate Indoor Air Quality and Household Overcrowding Predispose to Life-Threatening Pulmonary Infections: Call for Action
Malvika Kaul 1 , Israel Rubinstein 1 2 3
Affiliations
- PMID: 40994351
- DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251383183
We propose that stakeholders should develop an economically sustainable, public health intervention to improve indoor air quality and to reduce overcrowding in households of underserved U.S. rural, urban and suburban residents exposed to life-threatening respiratory infections, such as caused by coronavirus disease 2019, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus. We posit that a multifaceted community-based intervention in these households would improve social inequities, promote health justice, and reduce health care expenditure. However, this call for action would require an interdisciplinary, coordinated, and sustainable action plan devised by federal, state, county, and city government departments and agencies in close collaboration with and input from local community leaders, members, and residents.
Keywords: air pollution; health equity; poverty; race; social determinants of health; ventilation.