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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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5098.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Understanding community organizing efforts and strategies to engage in evidence-based policy initiatives will help public health professionals improve the ways in which collaborations take place and research is conducted. The questions for communities organizing for environmental justice include: (1) Is evidence needed to determine what level of clean-up should take place at a site or if health services should be provided? (2) If evidence is needed, who has the burden of proof? Who determines that the evidence is sufficient to show adverse impact to health? (3) How much evidence is needed to introduce and implement health-promoting policy? The needs and goals for communities organizing for environmental justice vary from community to community. Therefore, these panel presentations will highlight the ethical and justice questions around evidence-based policy as well as case examples of policy initiatives that take these questions into consideration. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the meaning of evidence-based policy and its use in communities organizing for environmental justice. 2. Provide four case examples of ways in which communities of color and Native Americans are given the burden to establish evidence before public health and environmental inventions can be established. 3. Give four examples of the ways in which health data is used to carry out public health interventions and impact environmental, economic development, land use, transportation and other policy initiatives. | |||
| Aditi Vaidya Tom Goldtooth | |||
| Bianca Encinias | |||
| Environmental Justice and Children’s Health: Linking Land Use Issues to Create School Air Quality Policies Sylvia Herrera, PhD | |||
| Cumulative Risks and Impacts at Tar Creek, Superfund Site, Oklahoma Rebecca Jim, Wilma A. Subra, MS | |||
| Environmental Health Collaborative Efforts of the Southeast San Francisco Environmental Health & Justice Organizing Initiative Charlie Sciammas | |||
| Tribal Grassroots Approaches to Public Health Collaborations and Decision-Making Tom Goldtooth | |||
| Using Community-Identified Health and Environmental Indicators for Land Use Advocacy Margaret Gordon | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Academic Public Health Caucus; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Statistics | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA