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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
5023.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Poster | |||
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| The public response to environmental health issues has taken on many forms, from program development to advocacy. Issues that affect the global environmental health have local impact. This session will discuss several strategies that local community groups have used successfully to address environmental health issues such as brownfields development, youth violence, and air and water pollution. Community efforts have included partnerships with local and state governments, public health officials and academic institutions. The purpose of this session is two-fold: a) to feature local solutions to environmental health issues, highlighting the Philadelphia region and b) to discuss how global issues can be addressed at a local level. Participants in this session include: 1) City of Philadelphia, Mural Arts Program to review the role of arts in urban transformation and renewal; 2) Philadelphia Anti-drug, Anti-violence Network to describe youth violence prevention programs and their effects upon the environment; 3) EcoTeams to discuss the use of tailored information and local action in specific Philadelphia neighborhoods; 4) The Haddington Collaborative to explain the importance of building social capital as a way to increase changes in the social and physical environment of the community. By addressing local solutions to broader environmental health issues, community groups not only help their own neighborhoods and problems but also help to foster direct action throughout the region. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to (1) identify up to 10 community initiatives in Philadelphia regarding environmental health, and (2) describe how the social and physical environmental factors are inter-related in programs from Philadelphia. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Julie A. Becker, PhD, MPH Neal L. Rosenblatt, MS, MS-C Jill S. Litt, PhD | |||
| Julie A. Becker, PhD, MPH | |||
| Thinking globally, acting locally: Philadelphia's response to environmental health issues Julie A. Becker, PhD, MPH | |||
| Role of mural arts in urban transformation and renewal Jane Golden | |||
| Influence of the social environment upon the physical environment in North Philadelphia through a youth violence reduction initiative Anthony "Rocko" Holloway | |||
| Tailoring information and actions to localities: EcoTeams in Philadelphia Judith Samans-Dunn | |||
| Importance of building social capital as a way to increase changes in the social and physical environment of the community in West Philadelphia Robin Foster-Drain, MD, MPH | |||
| Acting Locally: Improving Conditions Within Neighborhoods Through the Livable Neighborhood Program Julie A. Becker, PhD, MPH | |||
| Reducing Ozone on a Local Level: Ozone Action Program Julie A. Becker, PhD, MPH | |||
| Strange Partners: Improving Local Air Quality Through a Partnership of Community Members, Non-profit Activists, and the Polluter Julie A. Becker, PhD, MPH | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | Environmental Health, Nursing, Social Work | ||