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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4253.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Emerging and recalcitrant issues in children’s environmental health, including increasing trends in asthma and related respiratory conditions and continued risks of lead poisoning among poor and minority communities reflect complex environmental diseases that are determined by individual and community-level risk factors. Solutions to address complex environmental diseases, such as asthma and lead poisoning, require coordination and collaboration across federal, state and local health and environmental agencies, academic institutions, and related organizations. Additionally, such solutions require triangulation of strategies to reach at risk populations including 1) the education of the public health workforce – nurses, medical doctors, outreach workers, environmental regulators, sanitarians and industrial hygienists among others; 2) the development of sound and integrated information systems that track trends in health outcomes, environmental exposures, and sources; and 3) creative interventions that range from community-wide social marketing strategies to individual-level treatment interventions. This session will aim to address these issues through a diverse panel representing academia, national organizations including the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Environmental Council of States (ECOS), regional organizations including the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) and state agencies. The case studies will draw on examples from the U.S.- Mexico border, the Merrimack Valley in New England, as well as national policy initiatives. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) To recognize the importance of coordination and collaboration across agencies in the prevention of environmental disease in children, the need for information systems to track environmental diseases and their determinants, and the challenges of developing and implementing integrated intervention and prevention strategies; 2) To increase knowledge about ongoing activities that aim to address asthma and lead poisoning through innovative policy and outreach strategies. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Nsedu Obot, MPH Brenda Afzal, RN, MS Tunde Akinmoladun, PHD Marybeth Smuts, PhD Patrice Sulik | |||
| Jill S. Litt, PhD | |||
| Environmental house calls at the U.S. Mexico border Roger B. Perales, BS, RS | |||
| Healthcare providers as educators: Provider influence on lead screening rates and hospitalizations due to asthma attacks in two Massachusetts communities Tami L. Gouveia-Vigeant, MSW | |||
| Assessment of regional strategies for an integrated approach to reduction of asthma triggers in New England David R. Brown, Margaret Round, Andrea L. Boissevain, Melinda Treadwell | |||
| Integrating health and environment: Approaches to reducing the impact of asthma on children Amy D. Kyle, PhD MPH, A. Christine Eppstein, LLB LLM, Kristin J. Ryan, MS, Fun Shimabukuro, MS, Patricia I. Elliott, JD MPH | |||
| State approaches to integrating children’s health and the environment Patricia I. Elliott, JD MPH, A. Christine Eppstein, LLB LLM | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||