Abstract

Environmental health inequalities (EHIs) refer to health hazards disproportionately or unfairly distributed among the most vulnerable social groups or territories, which are generally the most discriminated, poor populations and minorities affected by environmental risks. However, constructing methods and tools to help orient public policies in order to reduce territorialized EHIs requires the evaluation of phenomena not always easy to apprehend and the reliability and representativeness of information that usually demand statistical processing.