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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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4307.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Using a range of methodologies, including community-based participatory research, focus groups, and secondary data analysis, this session provides evidence-based examples of ways in which the problem of environmental justice can be recognized. The particular presentations include an assessment of the environmental health perceptions of Arab Americans; a study relating community empowerment to involvement in environmental justice issues; coalition building to establish a diesel reduction policy agenda; an epidemiological study to determine the existence of possible differentials in health status on community members due to the impact of hazardous waste and polluting facilities; a study assessing social capital discrepancies in resolving environmental justice issues; and the use of focus groups to discern community awareness of and concerns related to environmental genetics. Specifically, within this session, speakers will demonstrate how to recognize the problem of environmental justice, using one of the aforementioned techniques. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1) Recognize four different ways in which to measure the existence of environmental justice within a particular community. 2) List three benefits to collaborating with the community to conduct research regarding environmental justice. 3) List two constraints/challenges to recognizing the problem of environmental justice within a community and two corresponding ways to overcome these constraints. | |||
| Beth A. Resnick, MPH Claire Barnett Leon F. Vinci, MPH Dorothy Stephens | |||
| Dorothy Stephens | |||
From local evidence to regional advocacy: Building an environmental justice and public health collaborative to establish a diesel reduction agenda ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Joel Ervice, Meena Palaniappan, MS, Fatumata Kamakaté, Bhavna Shamasunder, MES, Margaret Gordon | |||
| Community lead exposure, proximity to waste sites, and child learning and development Francesca M. Lopez, MSPH, John E. Vena, PhD, J. Wanzer Drane, PhD, Dwight Underhill | |||
| Environmental Justice and the role of social capital in an underserved urban community Lorraine Dillon, MS(c) | |||
| Assessing Community Awareness of Environmental-Genetic Risk and Vulnerability:Advantages and disadvantages of a cross-ethnic focus-group methodology C. Jeff Jacobson, PhD, LaVerne Mayfield, Amy Roe, PhD, Gregory Oakley, PhD, Sheli DeLaney, BA | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA