5095.0: Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session provides an overview of issues of indoor air quality and its relation to health. Presentations from a variety of disciplines will describe threats to health posed by environmental hazards present in the built environment, both in homes and in the workplace. Strategies for the integrated response necessary to ameliorate the threat posed by indoor air pollution and other indoor environmental exposures will also be discussed. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Describe at least three public health strategies for improving health by improving the quality of the built environment. 2) Understand how these strategies can be applied for improving the health status 3) Recognize the multiple dimensions of the environment (built, social, chemical, biological) that affect health, and how they interact. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Kevin Delaney, MPH Laureen Burton | |||
| Leyla Erk McCurdy, Senior Director | |||
| Housing and health: Interventions and strategies from Seattle James W Krieger, MD, MPH, Donna L. Higgins, PhD, Tim Takaro, MD,, MPH | |||
| Public housing and safer pest control: Results from a pilot program in New York City Daniel Kass, MPH, Theodore Outwater, BA, Brian Clarke, BA | |||
| Associations of molds indoors with neurobehavioral and pulmonary impairment Kaye H. Kilburn, MD | |||
| Maternal exposure to biomass smoke and reduced birth weight in Zimbabwe Vinod Mishra, PhD, MPH, Xiaolei Dai, MPH, Kirk R. Smith, PhD, MPH, Lasten Mika | |||
| Overview and selected results for airborne allergens, bacteria, and fungi in the 100 office building BASE study Derek G Shendell, MPH, DEnv, Feng C Tsai, PhD, Laureen Burton, Janet Macher, MPH, ScD | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||