ABSTRACT Neighborhood life expectancy varies by as much as 10 years across the City of Louisville. In 2013, the Greater Louisville Project funded by local government, businesses, and foundations, argued these differences had little to do with environmental factors. The Greater Louisville Project (2013) study argued that these neighborhood differences could be attributed 40% to socio-economic factors (with a major emphasis on education), 10% to physical environment, 30% to health behaviors, and 20% to access to medical care. To test these claims, we construct our own model of neighborhood variation in years of potential life lost (YPLL) by adding two variables testing environmental degradation. We operationalise two separate measures of environmental contamination: proximity to EPA designated brownfield sites and proximity to chemical factories in an industrial park in the neighborhood known as “Rubbertown”. We conduct several regression analyses, which show a relationship between proximity to environmental contaminants and an increase in neighborhood YPLL. Our beta weights challenge the claims made by the Greater Louisville Project, which minimize the impact nearness to environmental contaminants has on reductions in life expectancy in Louisville neighborhoods.

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污染、地点和过早死亡：来自中型城市的证据

摘要路易斯维尔市的邻里预期寿命相差多达 10 年。2013 年，由地方政府、企业和基金会资助的大路易斯维尔项目认为，这些差异与环境因素无关。大路易斯维尔项目（2013 年）的研究认为，这些邻里差异可归因于 40% 的社会经济因素（主要强调教育），10% 归因于物理环境，30% 归因于健康行为，20% 归因于获得医疗。为了测试这些说法，我们通过添加两个测试环境退化的变量来构建我们自己的潜在寿命损失年数 (YPLL) 的邻里变化模型。我们实施了两种不同的环境污染措施：靠近 EPA 指定的棕地，靠近名为“Rubbertown”的社区工业园区的化工厂。我们进行了多项回归分析，结果表明与环境污染物的接近程度与邻域 YPLL 的增加之间存在关系。我们的 beta 权重挑战了大路易斯维尔项目提出的要求，该项目最大限度地减少了接近环境污染物对路易斯维尔社区预期寿命减少的影响。