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3333.2: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
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| Health disparities persist among communities of color in prevalence of asthma, lead poisoning, and chronic diseases related to environmental hazards. There is increasing evidence that low-income populations are burdened with a disproportionate share of residential exposure to hazardous substances such as lead, PCBs, wood dust, and air pollutants. Children living in old, poorly maintained houses in urban settings face the highest risks. Homeowners in low-income communities often lack the financial resources to repair their homes, exacerbating the presence of multiple environmental health hazards that contribute to these illnesses. Traditional approaches to environmental health risk management often neglect the knowledge and experience of the at-risk populations and the sociocultural context of environmental hazards. Community based integrated environmental health interventions across the country have made great strides to reduce the environmental health risks of lead poisoning, asthma triggers, environmental tobacco pollution, household chemicals, and pests for low income minority families. This presentation will share important findings from assessment of environmental health hazards among low income communities of color in North Central Philadelphia, North Carolina, Detroit, and Baltimore. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Understand the importance of involving the community in program design. 2) Learn about environmental risk transition and its effect on the health of an immigrant population 3) Analyze how GIS technology can improve understanding of exposure to allergens and asthma triggers in the home environment. 4). Describe the contributions of key stakeholders in reducing multiple health hazards in occupied homes in low-income communities. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Sacoby M. Wilson, MS Shobha Srinivasan, PHD Daneen Farrow-Collier Kimberly Gray, PhD | |||
| Sacoby Wilson Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil | |||
Community-based Household Intervention to Reduce Environmental Health Risks in Arab American Communities of the Detroit Area ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Jerome Nriagu, PhD, Adnan Hammad, PhD, Kathryn Savoie, PhD, Hikmet J. Jamil, MD PhD FFOMI, Mary Johnson, MSc | |||
| Modeling risk factors for childhood respiratory disease from the physical and home environment Marie Lynn Miranda, PhD, Kelly L. Atkinson, M. Alicia Overstreet, Wayne R. Thomann, Dr PH | |||
| Reducing multiple environmental health hazards in occupied homes: Results and lessons learned Claudia M. Smith, RN, MPH, PhD | |||
| Healthy at Home: Addressing health disparities through an integrated environmental health education approach Michelle Allen, Heidi Worley, MA | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus; Health Administration; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||