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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3024.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| In this session, the learner will hear about various environmental exposures and their impact on health. These exposures include leaded gasoline and other agents associated with vehicle emissions as well as how the design of our neighborhoods affects our children’s health. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Assess the effect of leaded gasoline on a NASCAR racing team 2. What the relationship between proximity to parks, schools, fast food outlets, and street design and physical activity (PA) and BMI is in adolescent girls 3. Articulate the factors that suggest or refute a toxicological etiology for reported health symptoms 4. To recognize the relationship between traffic density and asthma symptoms 5. Understand the possible effects of quite low level concentrations of sulfur dioxide on the risk of symptoms in asthmatic children and adolescents | |||
| Geoffery M. Calvert, MD, MPH | |||
Blood lead levels in NASCAR racing teams ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Joseph O'Neil, MD, Gregory K. Steele, DrPH, MPH, C. Scott McNair, MD, Matthew Matusiak, PhD | |||
| Epidemiology and Policy Solution for Malachite Green * Risks in Hong Kong* Freshwater Fish Imports Vivien Lee, MPA | |||
| Neighborhood Characteristics and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH, Scott Ashwood, Molly Scott, Adrian Overton, Kelly Evenson, PhD, Carolyn C. Voorhees, PhD, Lisa Staten, PhD, Thomas McKenzie, Ariane L. Bedimo-Rung, PhD, MPH | |||
| Cluster illness and the unknown poison: Profiling a high school illness cluster for a potential toxic exposure Sylvia Tan, MS, Carrie Nagy, MPH, Tamara Nichols, MPH, CHES, Noël Bazini-Barakat, RN, MSN, MPH, Janet Scully, MPH, Dickson Diamond, MD, Cyrus Rangan, MD, FAAP, ACMT | |||
| Residential traffic density and asthma symptoms in 2 California counties Ying-Ying Meng, DrPH, Rudolph Rull, PhD, Beate Ritz, MD, PhD, Michelle Wilhelm, PhD, Paul English, PhD, Marlena Kane, MSW/MPH Cand | |||
| Relatively low sulfur dioxide levels impair respiratory function in some asthmatics Azadeh Tasslimi, BA, Stanley H. Weiss, MD, Amy L. Davidow, PhD, Clifford P. Weisel, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| Endorsed by: | Environment; Socialist Caucus; Statistics | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA