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3331.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| The significance of environmental factors is increasingly understood as central to public health, in ambient and built environments. Assessment and management of the environmental factors that affect health require acquisition and analysis of data from the environmental and health sectors. In the US, an environmental public health tracking initiative is intended to improve linkages of environmental and health data and assessment of environmental factors contributing to disease. A critical challenge is to develop approaches that identify populations at greatest risk and the environmental factors and combination of factors that are likely to affect such groups. Approaches that can determine whether disparities exist are essential to provide a full picture of the environmental health status of the population and to identify intervention and policy needs. Assessing differences by age, gender, race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, and net pollution burden or cumulative risk may lead to insights about areas in which to target attention. This session presents an overview of the many considerations involved in assessing disparities in exposure to important environmental factors. Age, race/ethnicity, and socio economic status, using types of data sources typically available in the US, focusing on resolution of environmental factors to geographic scales compatible with demographic information are all considered. Though limited, such methods can be informative, and in some cases can be enhanced by coordinated consideration of related environmental concentrations, body burdens, and health outcomes. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Understand essential elements of environmental public health tracking; Identify major populations of interest; Describe patterns of environmental inequalities do to racial/ethnic and low income populations. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Sacoby M. Wilson, MS Shobha Srinivasan, PHD Daneen Farrow-Collier Kimberly Gray, PhD | |||
| Allen Dearry | |||
| Introduction Allen Dearry, PhD | |||
| Integrating individual and community-level SES data in environmental health tracking: Theoretical and methodological considerations Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH | |||
Environmental Burdens of Low Income and Minority Populations and Health Disparities: Implications for Environmental Public Health Tracking ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Gilbert C. Gee, PhD, Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH | |||
| Addressing environmental and health disparities in environmental public health tracking initiatives Amy D. Kyle, PhD MPH, Tracey J. Woodruff | |||
| Incorporating race/ethnicity and social and economic status into measures for tracking children’s environmental health Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Amy D. Kyle, PhD MPH, Daniel A. Axelrad | |||
| Environmental Health Tracking, Will It Make A Difference? Pam Tau Lee, BS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||