3117.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Environmental health problems disproportionately impact on disadvantaged communities: ethnic minorities, immigrants, rural/agricultural areas. This session will include presentations on research on the environmental health issues in these communities and the lessons learned from attempts to communication information on environmental health risks to these communities. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to understand: 1. that ethnic minorities and people in economically areas are disproportionately impacted by environmental health problems; 2. the relationship of poor housing quality with pest infestations and pesticide exposures; 3. that parental occupation and residential factors contribute to the exposure of children to pesticides; 4. the environmental health risks of children living in rural impoverished communities; 5. the challenges to communicating information on environmental risk to immingrant communities and 6. how partnerships can increase culturally competent information dissemination. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Kevin Delaney, MPH Robyn Gilden, RN, MS Rebecca Love Kevin McNally, MBA Wendy J. Blumenthal, MPH Laureen Burton | |||
| Kevin McNally, MBA | |||
| Housing quality, pest infestations, and pesticide use among a cohort of Latina pregnant women and their children Asa Bradman, PhD, Jonathan Chevrier, MSc, Ira Tager, MD, Michael Lipsett, MD, Janet Macher, PhD, Jacqueline Sedgwick, MD, Rosana Hernandez, MPH, Ana Vargas, Geri Kavanagh-Baird, Jose M. Comacho, Elvia Cabrera, Brenda Eskenazi, PhD | |||
| Comparisons of pesticide exposure among children in different agricultural communities Linda McCauley, PhD, William Lambert, PhD, Juan Muniz, MS, Jennifer Scherer, MPH, Rachelle Mann-Gaytan, Michael Lasarev, MS | |||
| Lessons from the fields: Including children from agricultural communities in the National Children's Study Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, Asa Bradman, PhD, Eleanor A. Gladstone, MPH, Selene Jaramillo, MA, Kelly Birch, Nina Holland, PhD | |||
| Community Partnerships for Culturally Competent Environmental Health Education Chetana Acharya, MS, Tanya Kim, Marcia Henning, Stella Chao, Thomas Burbacher, PhD | |||
| Withdrawn -- Effective Outreach to Immigrant Communities: A Case Study in Environmental Health Marcia Henning | |||
| Discussion | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology; Latino Caucus; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Social Work | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||