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5030.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
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| Assuring environmental health is a global public health concern. While public health is geared toward prevention, many populations are already burdened by environmental exposures and adverse health effects. This presentation discusses the disproportionate burden imposed on selected populations due to environmental exposure. Environmental science continues to grapple with strategies to assess, evaluate, regulate, and manage multilevel environmental challenges. Meanwhile, individuals have real or perceived health concerns they attribute to environmental exposures. Often those exposed who live on or near hazardous waste sites already have preexisting health conditions and have heightened psychological stressors due to “perceived” vulnerability. When cause/effect associations are established between adverse health effects and environmental exposure, appropriate public health actions usually result. However, other methods of assessment are needed when evidence is not clear. Ample evidence, latency period, cumulative risk, vulnerability, and susceptibility are concepts worth considering when delivering appropriate public health actions. These populations, identified as “Communities of Concern” by the Institute of Medicine, are at risk in large part because of where they live, work, and/or play. Therefore, understanding that the environment is more than geography is essential if appropriate interventions are expected. There is growing literature that supports the increasing need for environmental public health, environmental medicine, and minority health. While these constructs are separate, the common thread is environmental justice. Through targeted public health actions, matters of environmental justice can be reduced, mitigated, and perhaps totally eliminated. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Identify disparities in reporting patterns in various communities and discuss differential underreporting and improvements for surveillance data; 2) Understand how environmental equity assessments are actively used to determine potential new public health interventions.; 3) Discuss meaningful ways in which to translate environmental science, environmental medicine, and minority health into appropriate public health action in Communities of concern; 4) Describe the ways in which the structural and environmental factors present in areas of highly concentrated poverty affect the health of urban residents. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Sacoby M. Wilson, MS Shobha Srinivasan, PHD Kimberly Gray, PhD Daneen Farrow-Collier Max Weintraub, MS | |||
| Risk of Cryptosporidium Infection among Baltimore Urban Anglers Jennifer Denise Roberts, MPH, DrPH, Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, Thaddeus Graczyk, PhD | |||
| Community actions to reduce air toxics risks: Case study of New Haven,Ct Marybeth Smuts, Madeleine Weil | |||
| Independent and Cumulative Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics, Airborne Particulate Matter, Indicators of Psychosocial Stress, and Nutritional Intakes on Variations in Cardiovascular Risk in Detroit: Preliminary Findings from the Healthy Environments Partnership Amy Schulz, PhD, Srimathi Kannan, PhD, J. Timothy Dvonch, PhD, Alison Benjamin, BA, Paul Max, BS | |||
| Potential effects of environmental injustices on health and academic achievement in head start students in Detroit, Michigan: Strategies to create environmental justice Bree C. Kessler, MSW, Bunyan Bryant, PhD, Dale Fitch, MSW, PhD, Elaine M. Hockman, PhD, Laura Kohn-Wood, PhD, Theresa Ronquillo, MSW, Michael Spencer, MSW, PhD, Jessie Urban | |||
| Environmental health research in vulnerable communities on the Texas-Mexico border: A double-barreled approach to address health needs while teaching health professions students Joan A. Engelhardt, BSN, RN, MSEd | |||
| Health of the "forgotten” of Washington, DC: An analysis of gentrification, concentrated poverty and health Emily Louise Wurth | |||
| A public health perspective on environmental justice Stephanie R. Miles-Richardson, DVM, PhD, Rueben C Warren, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Felicia Pharagood-Wade, MD, FACEP, Bailus Walker, PhD, MPH | |||
| Socio-economic, demographic and environmental indicators of six reported enteric infections in MA, 1993-2002 Steven A. Cohen, MPH, Jyotsna S. Jagai, MS, Karrie-Ann Toews, MPH, Bela T. Matyas, MD, MPH, Alfred DeMaria, Jr, MD, Jeffrey Griffiths, MD, MPH, TM, Elena N. Naumova, PhD | |||
| Staten Island leukemia study: Length of residence and mortality risk D. B. Gerstle, MS, MA, JD, A. M. Levine, Ph D, Alan Benimoff, PhD, Michael Kress, PhD, Michelle Gerstle Dresser, MPH, CHES | |||
| Staten Island breast cancer project: Increased risk associated with proximity to EPA Superfund sites D. B. Gerstle, MS, MA, JD, A. M. Levine, Ph D, Robert Christopher Silich, MD, Karen S. Schwartz, MD, Alan Benimoff, PhD, Michael Kress, PhD, Michelle Gerstle Dresser, MPH, CHES, Ann Lubrano, PhD, Valerie Lubrano, Andrea Makrinos, BA | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||