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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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5005.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM | |||
Poster | |||
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| The poster session will highlight varied efforts in the US to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental health policies and programs. These include: an analysis of EPA’s Risk Assessment Task Force’s paper outlining the perspective of various stakeholders; the efficacy of regulatory agency monitoring and enforcement of school drinking water; benefits of using integrated pest management for residential pest control; a project-based learning curriculum that is flexible and adaptive to needs of children and has helped them learn about poverty alleviation, sustainable resource management, and improvement of environment and public health; development of a new inspection form design and intervention strategies to prevent foodborne illness/injury; an overview of the Johns Hopkins program on environmental public health tracking; efforts by EPA to measure the actions taken as a result of its programs, and the health impacts associated with those actions; and finally highlight two initiatives by National Library of Medicine in developing a web-based environmental health, environmental justice, and toxicology resources in partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities/American Indian organizations and Tribal colleges an community based organizations. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | |||
| Joy E. Carlson, MPH Doug Farquhar, JD Shobha Srinivasan, PHD | |||
| Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking Beth A. Resnick, MPH, Mary A. Fox, PhD, MPH | |||
| Using Integrated Pest Management in Low Income Housing to Reduce Exposure to Potentially Harmful Pests and Pesticides Kathy Seikel | |||
| Risk-based food safety and security inspection systems: Using performance measures to achieve positive public health outcomes Elizabeth Pozzebon, MS, REHS | |||
| Measuring health outcomes from EPA's indoor environments program John M. Hall | |||
| What works: Environmental health information outreach to African American faculty, graduate students, and community organizations Gale Dutcher, MLS, MS, Cynthia B. Love, MLS, Stacey J. Arnesen, MS | |||
| State policy trends in environmental health Glen Andersen, MSPH | |||
| Lessons learned: Environmental health information outreach to Native Americans Cynthia Love, MLS, Gale Dutcher, MLS, MS, Stacey J. Arnesen, MS | |||
| Childhood lead poisoning prevention: Learning from environmental and toxicological data Catherine Klinger, MPH, Curtis E. Cummings, MD, MPH, Robert Himmelsbach, 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; Epidemiology; Occupational Health and Safety; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA