The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3236.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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This session will discuss the value of partnering with community groups when implementing environmental health programs. Examples of community collaboration will be explored with regard to communicating environmental health risks, initiating research projects to address asthma, and addressing environmental justice issues. This session will illustrate the importance of community collaboration in ehancing environmental health practice and identify future courses of action to develop successful community partnerships. | |||
Learning Objectives: 1. Define community collaboration and it's importance in improved environmental health. 2. Discuss methods to effectively engage community members in determining and communicating environmental health risks. 3.Identify methods to evaluate community collaboration. 3. Identify future courses of action to integrate community collaboration into environmental health practice. | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Beth Resnick, MPH Tunde Akinmoladun, PHD Patrick O. Bohan, MS, MSEH | |||
Leon Vinci, MPH | |||
Withdrawn -- Cumulative Risk Initiative Hazard Screening Assessment for Cook County, IL and Lake County, IN: Methodologies Leslie A. Nieves, MS, BA, James Butler, PhD, MS, BA, Maryann Suero, PhD, Mardi Klevs, MS, BA | |||
Withdrawn -- Cumulative Risk Initiative Hazard Screening Assessment for Cook County, IL and Lake County, IN: Results and Lessons Learned Leslie A. Nieves, MS, BA, James Butler, PhD, MS, BA, Mardi Klevs, MS, BA, Maryann Suero, PhD | |||
Community Action Against Asthma: Assessing asthma-related helth status using a community-based participatory research approach in Detroit, Michigan Toby C. Lewis, MD, MPH, Edith A. Parker, DrPH, Thomas G. Robins, MD, MPH, Katherine Edgren, MSW, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BS, Erminia Ramirez, MSW, Yolanda Hill, MSW, Alex Allen, MA, Barbara A. Israel, DrPH | |||
Environmental justice and environmental health: Overcoming barriers to eliminating environmental illness in at-risk communities Max Weintraub, MS | |||
Organized by: | Environment | ||
Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Nursing | ||
CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work |