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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Studies in Environmental Health: New And Old Threats & Emerging Methods Using GIS
4261.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Poster
Studies in Environmental Health: New And Old Threats & Emerging Methods Using GIS
Overview-Disease control and prevention on a global scale is becoming more evident as country-specific epidemics are crossing geographic boundaries at an increased rate. Surveillance and tracking methods play a role in prevention and control. In this session, the validity of surveillance methods such as screening questionnaires for lead poisoning will be examined. Factors that are associated with adolescent health behaviors that lead to delinquency and diminished health status in rural communities will also be identified. Improved testing methods for new US threats such as West Nile Virus will be presented. The link among and older and ever-increasing US threats such as lung cancer will be investigated in relation to occupation and length of residence in a specific geographic location. In addition, GIS mapping and analysis methods will be presented including the following: surveillance of positive rabies raccoon specimens in Nassau County; analysis of the benefits of radon education in McLean county; examination of the association between levels of ozone concentration and emergency department admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions in small local areas.
Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to: 1) Identify lung cancer risk factors for urban populations due to environmental perturbations; 2) Identify health indicators correlated with sprawl and segregation in large US cities and define and explain dissimilarity and sprawl indices; 3) Recognize linkages between community disorganization/design and drug usage and violence; 4) Identify the procedure for assessing the soil heavy metal investigation; 5) Understand the merits of applying geostatistics and GIS to analyze ozone exposures and health outcomes at the small area level (e.g., ZIP codes); 6) Assess the role of geocoded information in community policy development; 7) Recognize the existence of medically unexplained symptoms associated with modern warfare; 8) Understand the transmission of West Nile Virus and improved West Nile testing procedures.
Organizer(s):Rebecca A. Head, PhD, DABT
Molly Jacobs, MPH
August Martin
Board 1Staten Island Lung Cancer Project: Length of residence on Staten Island, smoking, occupation and mortality risk
D. B. Gerstle, MS, MA, JD, A. M. Levine, PhD, Robert Christopher Silich, MD, Alan Benimoff, PhD, Michael Kress, PhD, Elena C. McCoy, PhD, Michelle Gerstle Dresser, MPH, CHES, Ann Lubrano, PhD, Karen S. Schwartz, MD, Amy Ganci, MS, A. Torino
Board 2War-Related Illness and Injury Study Centers: A resource for deployment-related health concerns
Aaron I. Schneiderman, PhD, RN, Andrew E. Lincoln, ScD, MS, Drew Helmer, MD, MS, H. Liesel Copeland, PHD, Michelle K. Prisco, MSN, Gudrun Lange, PhD, Han K. Kang, DrPH, Benjamin H. Natelson, MD
Board 3City living: Health, segregation, and sprawl
Chantal M. Montagnet, MA, MPhil, Mary Putt, PhD, ScD, Katrina Armstrong, MD
Board 4Validity of a Lead Risk Screening Questionnaire and Feasibility of Fingerstick Lead Testing in Maricopa County
Anu Partap, MD MPH, Kathleen Mathieson, PhD
Board 5Improving community testing for West Nile Virus: An evidence based practice
Martha A. Underwood, RN
Board 6Community environment as key factor for adolescent health risk behaviors
Janice Zinn, BS, Flavius R. W. Lilly, MPH
Board 7Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to anaylze radon education in McLean County, IL
Sharron E. LaFollette, PhD, Dagmar Budikova, PhD
Board 8Geostatistics study in the heavy mental pollution data in Taiwan
Po-Huang Chiang, MPH, ABD, Der-Ming Liou, PhD, Shu-I. Chiu, MS, Hsiao-Lei Chen, MS, Chi-Pang Wen, MD, PhD, Yaw-Tang Shih, MD, DrPH, Ta-Chien Chan
Board 9Raccoon rabies: A public health response utilizing geographic information system mapping
Susan G. King, MS, RS, Donald Irwin, BS
Board 10Association between ozone and emergency department admissions: Application of spatial statistics and GIS at the small-area level
Mona Choi, MN, RN, Frank C. Curriero, PhD, Meg Johantgen, PhD, RN
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Epidemiology

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA