4235.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM | ||||
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| This session will present an overview of the underlying mechanisms by which the interaction of social and physical environments leads to health disparities.The social environment includes individual and community-level characteristics, e.g., socioeconomic status (SES), education, coping resources and support systems, residential factors, cultural variables, institutional and political forces such as racism and classism, familial factors, and media influences. The physical environment includes physical agents (e.g., radiation), chemical agents (e.g., pesticides), and biological agents (e.g., pathogens), to which individuals are exposed in a multitude of settings, including home, school, and workplace. Health status may be viewed as the accumulation of risk from multiple, interacting social and physical environmental exposures occurring over time. Presentations in this session will address how social and physical environmental agents contribute to disparities in health among the U.S. population and current approaches to reducing these disparities | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Allen Dearry, PhD | ||||
| How Socioeconomic Status Operates Through the Environment to Influence Health Nancy E Adler, PhD | ||||
| Investing in Social Capital to Improve Public Health Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD | ||||
| Environmental Toxicants and Children's Health Frederica P Perera, PhD | ||||
| Approaches to Health Disparity Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Allen Dearry, PhD | ||||
| Part II: Taped Broadcast of the Annual Meeting Keynote Address | ||||
| Keynote Presenter: Scott Harshbarger, President and CEO, Common Cause | ||||
| Sponsor: | APHA | |||