4268.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Environmental exposures in communities continue to raise difficult questions about the inadequacies of past responses and how more effective strategies can be developed that meet scientific standards and are community-inclusive. The papers in this session emphasize the complexity of environmental exposures at the local level and address generic approaches that too often have been unresponsive to community characteristics at the local level and have left health researchers poorly equipped to be effective partners. This session will demonstrate that the communities that must grapple with how to respond effectively to heightened exposures are quite varied and include a rural community exposed to asbestos through vermiculite mining, urban immigrant neighborhoods with high lead levels, poor and minority urban communities exposed to dusts and metals from extensive housing demolition and rural Alaskan communities where there is exposure to persistent organic pollutants. Those exposed (e.g., Alaskan natives, new immigrants, Spanish-speakers, African-Americans) bring different strengths and perspectives to their responses. The papers in this session represent a range of local settings and provide models for understanding and managing population exposures to hazardous substances at the local level. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Participants will gain a better grasp of new approaches to addressing population exposures at the local level, the problems encountered, future directions, and the implications for traditional risk management-community involvement models. | ||||
| Russ Lopez | ||||
| Linda Silka, PhD | ||||
| Task-based exposure monitoring for residential exposure to amphibole asbestos in Libby, Montana Christopher P. Weis, PhD, DABT, Aubrey K. Miller, MD, MPH, Paul Peronard | ||||
| A Study of Urban Housing Demolitions In Baltimore Mark Farfel, ScD, Peter S.J. Lees, PhD, Anna Orlova, PhD, Charles Rohde, PhD, Jill Litt, PhD | ||||
| Partnering among multiple agencies to address the public health concerns resulting from community-wide exposure to asbestos in Libby, Montana Donna Orti, MS, MPH | ||||
| POPs, the subsitence diet and risk communication in Alaska: The challenge Kristina A. Larson, MHEd, CHES | ||||
| Cross-cultural approaches in addressing environmental risk perception Carl M. Hild, MSSciMgmt | ||||
| Immigration and childhood lead poisoining in New York City, 1990-2000 Carla V. Rodriguez, MPH, Karen L. Gurnitz, MPH, Andrew Faciano | ||||
| Promotores de Salud and Latino Health Yanira Cruz Gonzalez | ||||
| Sponsor: | Environment | |||
| Cosponsors: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Occupational Health and Safety; Public Health Nursing; Social Work; Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||