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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4186.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Increasingly, the great need and demand for community-based research in children’s environmental health issues has gained more attention. Many great research efforts in pediatric environmental health have provided a wealth of much needed information. The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) is conducting a prospective cohort study of African American and Latina mothers and newborns in Washington Heights, Harlem, and the South Bronx to evaluate prenatal and early postnatal risk factors. The university-community partnership consists of feedback to study participants, a community-wide environmental health education campaign, and a building-wide integrated pest management intervention. In an effort to define the dimensions of lead poisoning in Mississippi, a formal needs assessment of existing sources of information on exposures, outcomes and policies is being conducted. Needs and opportunities for improved surveillance, intervention and research will be identified. Another example includes on evaluation of the primary prevention effectiveness of lead ordinance activities in Milwaukee by comparing two cross-sectional surveys of children's blood-lead levels in both treated neighborhoods and carefully selected control neighborhoods. Specific areas to be addressed include tailoring materials to study participants, identifying appropriate formats for communication, evaluating which specific information should be provided, and addressing the needs for recommendations. Research in childhood lead poisoning also face demands to better notify study participants of results of environmental testing. Session participants will gain enlightenment on all presented issues and participate in thoughtful discussion. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Recognize the rewards and challenges of collaboration between communities and academics; 2) Identify data collection techniques used to measure environmental exposures in fetuses, newborns and adults; 3)Discuss the relationships of specific environmental exposures to developmental and respiratory outcomes in children; 4) Develop strategies for lead program evaluation of intervention effectiveness in their communities. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Brenda Afzal, RN, MS Tunde Akinmoladun, PHD | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH | |||
| A Molecular Epidemiologic Prospective Cohort Study of African American and Latina Mothers and Children Frederica Perera, DrPH | |||
| Assessing Community-Academic Partnerships David Evans, PhD, Peggy Shepard, BA | |||
| Toward a needs asessment of lead poisoning in Mississippi Marinelle Payton, MD, PhD, MPH | |||
| Notifying study participants of environmental testing results; Issues of ethics, law, conscience and science Shara Godiwalla, MPH, Pat McLaine, RN, MPH, Warren Galke, PhD, Jonathan W Wilson, MPP | |||
| Evaluation of Neighborhood-Wide Lead Hazard Control Interventions Conducted in Milwaukee Warren J. Strauss, ScM, Amy Murphy, MPH, Peter J. Ashley, DrPH, Warren Galke, PhD, Pat McLaine, RN, MPH, Jean Wendt | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||