The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: New Approaches to Environmental Health Practice
5160.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
New Approaches to Environmental Health Practice
This session will look at new approaches to environmental health practice and note the benefits and challenges. Examples of linking environment and health data; implementing systems-based approaches to identify and quantify environmental antecedents that affect food, water, and indoor air quality; integrating clinical management and environmental prevention of asthma; and utilizing social marketing techniques to develop and implement a pesticide educational intervention will be explored.
Learning Objectives: (1)To introduce new approaches to environmental health practice; (2) To discuss the benefits and challenges of these new approaches; and (3) Explore how to evaluate the new approaches.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Beth Resnick, MPH
Tunde Akinmoladun, PHD
Patrick O. Bohan, MS, MSEH
Presider(s):Beth Resnick, MPH
2:30 PMLinking health and environmental data: Challenges and opportunities in environmental health practice
Ruth H. Allen, PhD MPH, Gauthami Gondy, MPH MD, Margaret G. Conomos, MPH
2:45 PMEnvironmental Management of Asthma at Top-Ranked U.S. Managed Care Organizations
Doug Brugge, PhD, MS, Janelle L Bagley, James N. Hyde, MA, SM
3:00 PMImplementing and Evaluating a Pesticide Safety Program for Farmworkers
Leslie Clarke, PhD, Joan Flocks, JD, Carol A. Bryant, PhD, Paul Monaghan, PhD
3:15 PMGenetically Modified Organisms: Human Health Issues and Regulatory Decisions
Eileen Gay Jones, PhD, Jeffrey Masson, MS
3:30 PMWithdrawn -- Lessons Learned:Putting the public into a Health Risk Assessment
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Epidemiology; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA