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5028.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Poster | |||
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| The public health profession has recently turned its attention to the various effects the built environment has on peoples health. This new focus has exposed a pressing need for public health professionals to collaborate with urban and regional planners as a means of intervening in the community planning process in ways that can potentially improve health outcomes. In addition, increasing greenhouse gases and signs of global climate change raise the importance of understanding the effects weather and climate related variables have on health. There are several aspects of planning and public health where examples of collaborative efforts are already underway. This session will describe the overall national movement to promote better planning and design as a means of improving health and will highlight examples of communities across the country where there have been successes in collaboration. In addition, this session will examine the impact of state legislative policies on environmental determinants of behavior and on population level behavior. Conditions as varied as ischemic stroke and acute otitis media are found to be associated with weather variables. A variety of health conditions may be affected by local and global climate changes. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Identify associations between climate change, weather and health conditions. Describe roles of local public health officials and planners in collaborating to produce community designs that enhance public health. | |||
| Susan Lyon Stone, MS Joy E. Carlson, MPH Robeena M. Aziz John Balbus, MD | |||
| Effect of weather and weekdays on acute ischemic cerebrovascular event (AICE) incidence David FE Stuhlmiller, MD, Yu-Feng Chan, MD, Hosseinali Shahidi, MD, Shreni Zinzuwadia, Anthony Rosania, MS, Adnan I. Qureshi, MD, Adnan Safdar, MD, Jawad F. Kirmani, MD, Muhammed A. Sayed, MD, Shafiuddin Ahmed, MD, Ronald Low, MD | |||
| Understanding the potential health impacts of climate change to facilitate management and prevention Victor S. Edgerton, MPH, MEM | |||
| Effect of Weather and Environmental Air Pollution of the Incidence of Otitis Media Hosseinali Shahidi, MD, Yu-Feng Chan, MD, Leonard Bielory, MD, Richard J. Massone, BA, Susan Meehan, Van Dunn, MD MPH, Katherine Benevenia, MD, Robert Barricella, DO, Maureen Rickerhauser-Krall, MD, Maria Alvarez, Ronald Low, MD | |||
| Withdrawn -- A Local Air Toxics Assessment for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee Spencer E. Hissam, ME, PE, Roger D. Painter, PhD, PE | |||
| Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community Marya Morris, AICP | |||
| Framework for monitoring and evaluating the impact of state physical activity legislative policies: Expert panel recommendation Louise Māsse, PhD, James F. Igoe, MA, MLS, Judy Kruger, PhD, MS, Audie Atienza, PhD, Harold Kohl, PhD, Kristianna Pettibone, MS, PhD, Amy Lazarus Yaroch, PhD | |||
| Community Initiated Neighborhood-enhancement Projects to Advance Public Health Jan C Semenza, PhD, MPH, MS, Tanya L. March, MS, MS, Brian Bontempo, PhD | |||
| West End Revitalization Association's Grassroots Challenge: Reducing the P.A.I.N. of the Built Environment in Mebane, NC Omega Wilson, MS | |||
| Impact of Transportation and Land Policies on Quality of Life in African-American and low-income communities in Mebane, NC John Cooper, PhD | |||
| Indoor Air Quality Problems in Low-Income/Minority Communities in Mebane, NC Sacoby M. Wilson, MS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Health Administration; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||