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Session: Linking Health Disparities and Environmental Justice: Environmental Hazards, Cumulative Risks, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
4017.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Linking Health Disparities and Environmental Justice: Environmental Hazards, Cumulative Risks, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
In order to better understand the relationships between environmental hazards and cumulative risks, a conceptual framework is needed to develop common definitions and terms that will enhance dialogue among disproportionately affected communities, regulators and other stakeholders to guide strategies and actions to address health disparities. Environmental risk assessments are expressed quantitatively and environmental risk impacts are expressed qualitatively, will communities and the general public focus on individual environmental stressors that occur simultaneously and repeatedly. This session will examine placing emphasis on identifying multiple stressors and explore the impact that these stressors and exposure to environmental hazards have on the health of vulnerable populations.
Learning Objectives: Define health disparities, relationships; develop common definition in context of environmental health and disproportionate impact, implications for research methods such as CBPR.
Moderator(s):Charles Lee
8:30 AMCumulative risk assessment and community health tracking: Building the tools for environmental justice
Thomas Burke, PhD, MPH, Ronald H. White, MST, Mary A. Fox, PhD, MPH, Elizabeth J. Dederick, MA, MHS, PhD Stu
8:50 AMEnvironment and health: Contributing factors from a community based research perspective  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sylvia Herrera, PhD
9:10 AMRelevance of socioeconomic and health disparity indices for environmental risk assessment
H. Patricia Hynes, MA, MS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:APHA
Endorsed by:American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus; Health Administration; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA