5093.0: Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Community-based environmental health assessments offer several advantages to address environmental health issues by contributing to more effective communication, data collection and building of trust between local environmental health practitioners and their constituents. The collaboration component of community-based environmental health assessments can be the means by which increased social support and effective problem solving can begin to address disparities between scientific understanding and community perception, and environmental injustice, by providing the documentation to identify sources and conditions that produce outcomes that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities. Recognizing this need, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), developed Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH), a community-based environmental health assessment tool, which is designed to help local communities identify and address local environmental health priorities. PACE EH objectives adhere to the principles of environmental justice, environmental health leadership, support of the core functions of environmental health and community collaboration. The process encourages users to actively identify, develop, and implement action steps to reduce local environmental health risks, build community support, and increase community capacity to achieve the abovementioned principles. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of this presentation the attendee will: (1) acquire a basic understanding of the PACE EH tool; (2) be able to articulate how utilization of community-based environmental health assessments like PACE EH can address environmental health inequities; (3) benchmark their own activities with the provided case examples of usages. Additionally, this presentation will: (1) provide a basic understanding of the PACE EH tool; (2) illustrate how the issue of environmental health inequities can be addressed by utilization of PACE EH; (3) provide case examples of usages of PACE EH from the field that demonstrate a positive impact on preventing environmental health threats. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Brian Hubbard, MPH Wendy J. Blumenthal, MPH Stefanie DeOLLoqui, MS Polly Hoppin, ScD Kevin Delaney, MPH | |||
| Patrick Bohan | |||
| Introductory Remarks | |||
| Community-based environmental health assessments: Lessons from the practice community Carl Osaki, RS, MSPH | |||
| Peruvian Amazon Shantytown Uses Community Environmental Public Health Assessment Process to Address Water and Sewage Problems Brian Hubbard, MPH, John Sarisky, MPH, RS, Virginia Baffigo, MD, MA, Richard Gelting, PhD | |||
| Community-based collaborations for local environmental health decision-making Jonathan H. Drewry, MPH, John Sarisky, MPH, RS | |||
| Multnomah County Health Department focuses on the community in the protocol for assessing community excellence in environmental health Lila Wickham, RN, MS, Tricia Tillman, MPH, Kevin Odell, BA, BFA | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||