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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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5099.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| What are the frameworks that anchor environmental and public health? These frameworks are not always transparent nor is their development understood. The session, "Frameworks for Future Consideration", explores nascent frameworks for environmental health practice and policy. Environmental health practice is under scrutiny to prove its effectiveness in protecting health and preventing disease. Strategies for the development and implementation of an evidence base for environmental health practice are outlined in this session, with an eye towards demonstrating efficacy, and identifying gaps. A case is also made for funding an environmental health practice research agenda. An area where research is demonstrating the relationship between exposure and disease is indoor air pollution. With the exception of tobacco smoke, there are few indoor air quality standards or risk reduction programs extant. Comprehensive prevention and mitigation approaches are discussed for indoor air pollutants such as formaldehyde, benzene and chloroform, as well as a policy approach presented to the California Air Resources Board. Acknowledging the energy crisis, a framework for conceptualizing the decline of oil as a major environmental change that will affect the nature, structure, and functioning of public health is outlined. During this era of oil scarcity, the public health system could actually be strengthened to preserve the collective health of the nation. And finally, a proactive framework that can be applied to determine the safety of water for recreational purposes is explored. Several variables combined with compiled bacterial analyses yield some interesting results to establish a public health policy that is proactive. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: o List at least two strategies for improving and disseminating the evidence base for environmental health practice. o Describe how various social dimensions that influence the health of the public will be affected by the future scarcity of petroleum. o Discuss five major health impacts of indoor air pollution and six mitigation approaches to reduce indoor pollution and risk. | |||
| Joy E. Carlson, MPH Doug Farquhar, JD Shobha Srinivasan, PHD | |||
| Doug Farquhar, JD | |||
| Evidence based environmental health practice Sarah B. Kotchian, EdM MPH PhD | |||
| Public Health in a Petroleum-Scarce Society G. Daniel Bednarz, PhD | |||
Predictability of Swimming Prohibitions by Observational Parameters ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Joseph Kuntz, BS, RS, Robert Murray, MS | |||
| Implementing Integrated Pest Management in Chicago Public Housing John Knight | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA