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3329.1: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Many states have established Environmental Justice (EJ) Commission or Working Groups to examine and research the role of the state in addressing EJ issues with their states. Costs of healthcare and disease burden are becoming ever more of a handicap in minority communities. Minority and poor communities have higher than average morbidity rates of asthma and lead poisoning, and the diseases have become an issue in environmental injustice since they are mostly attributed to environmental risk factors found disproportionately in many minority communities. In an effort to increase capacity building, modern environmental health challenges such as hazardous waste sites, sick buildings, disease clusters, and disaster planning require skills beyond the traditional health department functions in environmental health, which typically have focused on sanitarian duties. This session will focus on the attempt in Maryland to develop environmental health indicators that communities can use for self-assessment, comparisons with other communities, and to set goals for environmental health improvement; Describe the annualized costs of asthma and lead poisoning in the Arab American Detroit community; Highlight a Richmond area survey demonstrating the need for continuing efforts to improve the practice of primary care physicians in the management of childhood asthma; Showcase specific training materials through schools of public health to increase environmental health capacity and discuss opportunities for further distribution; And the feasibility of enrolling and surveying low-income Hispanic immigrant families in Colorado about home safety and health hazards and conduct detailed inspections and environmental sampling in and around their homes. | |||
| Learning Objectives: By the end of the session the participant will: 1. Be able to discuss use and implications of environmental health indicators. 2. Recognize and assess direct, indirect, social, and quality of life costs for asthma and lead poisoning. 3. Identify the core competencies for environmental health and the essential environmental health services; 4. Identify safety and environmental home hazards that may impact the health and well-being of young children; 5.Increased awareness of the perceptions of usefulness and utility of the NIH guidelines on Asthma. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Sacoby M. Wilson, MS Shobha Srinivasan, PHD Daneen Farrow-Collier Kimberly Gray, PhD | |||
| Robyn Gilden, RN, MS | |||
Creating environmental health indicators for Environmental Justice policy and practice ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Robyn Gilden, RN, MS, Barbara Sattler, RN DrPH FAAN | |||
| Withdrawn -- Costs of environmentally attributable diseases in the Arab American Community of the Detroit area Lauren Zajac, Jerome Nriagu, PhD, Kathryn Savoie, PhD, Adnan Hammad, PhD, Hikmet Jamil, MD PhD | |||
| Capacity-building in environmental health: Cutting-edge training materials development Johanna M. Hinman, MPH, CHES, Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH | |||
| Environmental and safety hazards among children: A feasibility study of enrolling and surveying low-income Hispanic immigrant families in Denver, Colorado Analice S. Hoffenberg, MD, Jill S. Litt, PhD, Edward Hendrikson, PhD, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, MD PhD MPH | |||
| Asthma care, knowledge and practices of primary care physicians in a metropolitan area Adrienne Keller, PhD, Elizabeth L. McGarvey, EdD, Helen Ragazzi, MD, Lucie Ferguson, PhD, RN, Thomas Platts-Mills, MD, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||