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Housing as a Vaccine: Quantifying the Health and Economic Benefits of Green Affordable Housing

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

Yianice Hernandez, Director, Green Communities , Green Communities, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., New York, NY
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)

Learning Areas:

Chronic disease management and prevention
Environmental health sciences
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Describe the methods of a robust study examining the effects of green housing rehab on childhood asthma. List some of challenges of implementing a study of this magnitude.

Keyword(s): Environmental Health, Asthma

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have administered the research for the 2009 Incremental Cost, Measurable Savings: Enterprise Green Communities Criteria report, the first-of-its-kind study showing the cost effectiveness and health outcomes of meeting the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria and its subsequent report update released in 2012.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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