The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA
Session: Environmental Justice: Understanding and Preventing Inequitable Exposures - Implications of what we eat, where we live, and where our children play
3026.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Poster
Environmental Justice: Understanding and Preventing Inequitable Exposures - Implications of what we eat, where we live, and where our children play
These presentations cover a variety of topics including potential enviornmental exposures affecting communities acorss the United States. These hazards include mercury, dioxins and red tide toxics. Health effects incllude breast cancer and osteosarcoma.
Learning Objectives: 1. Outline how environmental hazards affect specific communities. 2. Link environmental justice issues to potential health problems. 3. Develop a framework for understanding how specific helath threats affect communities.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Jason Corburn, PhD
Board 1Environmental Justice Issues Related to Mercury Exposure of Subsistence Fishers
Kathleen Cunningham, PhD, Laura Graham
Board 2Kanawha River Valley, West Virginia dioxin contamination: Widespread environmental contamination and uncertain public health effects
Lora Siegmann Werner, MPH
Board 3Development of a Fish Consumption Advisory: Science and Community Partnership
Lynn M. Waishwell, PhD CHES, Joanna Burger, PhD
Board 4Pesticide use among Hmong refugees in Central California
Peter Kunstadter, PhD, Tha Cha, MD, Ghia Xiong, Saeng Kue, BA, Kao-Ly Yang, PhD
Board 5Radium in Drinking Water and Osteosarcoma
Perry D. Cohn, PhD, MPH, Ric Skinner, MS, Stasia Burger, Judith Klotz, DrPH
Board 6Health Issues and Education Needs of Residents In and Around Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Rebecca T. Parkin, PhD, MPH, Grace K. Paranzino, RN, MS, CHES
Board 7Staten Island breast cancer project:Occupation, length of residence and mortality risk
D. B. Gerstle, MS, MA, A. M. Levine, Ph D, Robert Christopher Silich, MD, W. G. Wallace, Ph D, Michelle J. Gerstle, MPH, CHES, Ann Lubrano, PhD, Andrea Makrinos, BA
Board 8Recreational Exposure to Aerosolized Brevetoxins during Florida Red Tide Events
Lorraine C Backer, PhD, MPH, Lora E Fleming, MD PhD, MPH, MSc, Alan Rowan, MPH, Yung-Sung Cheng, PhD, Janet Benson, PhD, Richard H. Pierce, PhD, Julia Zaias, DVM, Judy A Bean, PhD, Gregory D. Bossart, VMD, PhD, Raul Quimbo, PhD, David Johnson, MD, Daniel G. Baden, PhD
Board 9Microbial recreational water indicators in the subtropical marine environment
Wenthi Quirino, Lora E Fleming, MD PhD, MPH, MSc, Helena Solo Gabriele, Phd, Dominick Squicciarini, BS MPH, Samir Elmir, PE, T Shibata, BS MS, Margia Arguello
Board 10Translating basic science into public health informed community intervention: Highlights from the Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
Elaine M. Faustman, PhD, DABT, Richard A. Fenske, PhD, Thomas Burbacher, PhD
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:Environmental Health, Nursing, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA