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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4119.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Pediatric asthma is a growing public health issue, disproportionately affecting low-income people and people of color. Exposure to indoor asthma triggers plays an important role in the development and exacerbation of asthma. In response, many communities are implementing “Healthy Homes” projects in which field staff conduct home visits to complete indoor environmental assessments, present education on reducing exposures to triggers, provide materials to help participants reduce exposures (e.g. bedding encasements), offer assistance with roach and rodent eradication, and assist with advocacy for improving housing conditions. Many programs have integrated injury prevention and elimination of exposure to toxic substances such as lead and pesticides into their protocols. This session will present a state-of-the art description of Healthy Homes programs. During the first hour, presenters from Boston, Detroit, New York and Seattle will describe their programs, results of program evaluations, challenges faced in implementation and strategies to overcome these obstacles. One major challenge facing all the programs is how to address effectively the substandard housing conditions that underlie many of the exposures found in homes. In the final half-hour, presenters and the audience will discuss steps public health practitioners, academics and communities can take in addressing the issue of substandard housing and the other policy issues associated with improving indoor environmental quality. The goal of the session is to initiate a network of health and housing advocates who can work to put housing back into public health and who will take concrete steps to promote healthy housing policies. | |||
| Learning Objectives: (1) Participants will learn how to use data for policy development; (2) list 5 indoor environmental triggers for asthma; (3) describe challenges to reducing indoor environmental triggers for asthma; (4) recognize important role of housing in asthma health; Articulate the goals, objectives and findings, to date, of the Healthy Homes Initiative; (5) Understand the successes and challenges in implementing a multi-partner, community-based program for assessing and reducing home environmental hazards; (6) Identify strategies for overcoming obstacles;(7) Discuss the implications for reducing health and safety hazards in low-income housing; and (8)Discuss policy and advocacy issues for making housing healthier. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Brenda Afzal, RN, MS Tunde Akinmoladun, PHD | |||
| James W Krieger, MD, MPH | |||
| Research Data on Housing and Health Leads to Policy Development Margaret Reid, RN | |||
| Community Action Against Asthma's household environmental intervention, Detroit, Michigan Edith A. Parker, DrPH, Toby C. Lewis, MD, MPH, Katherine Edgren, MSW, Ursula Ford-Pitts, Jean Patton, Maria A. Salinas, AS, Adriana Zuniga, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BS | |||
| Bedford Stuyvesant Healthy Homes Initiative: A Community-Government-Academic Partnership to Control Environmental Hazards in the Home Environment Susan Klitzman, DrPH, Laura Rothenberg, Jack Caravanos, Rosario Vera, Deborah Deitcher, Louise R. Cohen, MPH | |||
| Seattle-King County Healthy Homes: Reducing asthma morbidity through improving home environmental quality James W Krieger, MD, MPH, Tim Takaro, MD,, MPH, Lin Song, PhD, Carol Allen, Marcia Weaver, PhD | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||