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4301.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
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| Health is potentially influenced by a variety of social, economic, and environmental. These determinants of health are not uniformly spread across society, and this uneven distribution is linked to disparities in health and health risk that disproportionately affect people of color, low income populations, and economically or geographically isolated communities. Efforts to achieve environmental justice were inspired not just by disparities in environmental risks to health, but also by failures to fairly and meaningfully involve impacted groups in regulatory processes. As the Environmental Protection Agency affirms, environmental justice "will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work." This session will address many aspects of environmental justice. The opening presentation will report on a comprehensive effort by the city of Boston to address health disparities, with particular attention to the influence of the built environment and impacts of the environment on personal safety and access to healthy food. The following three presentations will describe efforts to address situations where a population or community was disproportionately impacted by environmental or workplace hazards. The final presentation compares strategies that have been used by industry groups to influence research efforts and the dissemination of research findings, to alter perceptions of environmental health risks. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe strategies to address environmental factors that contribute to health disparities. 2. Discuss the potential roles of collaborative partnerships in addressing environmental health risks. 3. Discuss ways in which groups with vested interests might attempt to influence environmental health research, and options to identify or monitor manipulative efforts. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | John Sullivan, MA | |||
| 4:30 PM |  | Boston Disparities Project: Food and violence Meghan Turnier Patterson, MPH, Tara Agrawal, MPH | ||
| 4:45 PM | | Soil Contamination in New Orleans: Arsenic and Lead Before and After Katrina Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, MPH, Gina Solomon, MD, MPH | ||
| 5:00 PM | | Successful Reduction of Community Exposure to Perfluorooctanoate Through an Environmental Justice Partnership Edward Emmett, MD, MS, Frances Shofer, Hong Zhang, David Freeman, Nancy Rodway, Mary Hufford, Leslie Shaw | ||
| 5:15 PM | | Recent Immigrants Working in Renovation and Construction Businesses and their Families are at Increased Risk of Lead Poisoning Thomas Plant, MS, Leon Bethune, MPH, Bellanna Borde, RN, MSN, Triniese Polk, Paul A. Shoemaker, MPH, Euridice Leite, CHW, Jose R. Diaz, Angelo Nogueira Sanca, CHW | ||
| 5:30 PM | | Corporate manipulation of environmental health research: A comparison of four industries Jenny White, MSc, MPH, Lisa Bero, PhD | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Environment | |||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Community-Based Public Health Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA