A community response using biomontoring as a tool
David Baker, unknown, unknown, Anniston, AL 99999, (256) 236 6773, unknown@unknown.org
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Learning Objectives:
- Learn how a community in Alabama used biomonitoring data to explore their health issues and define health concerns.
- Learn how such explorations involved public health agencies and health professionals in establishing linkages between community health problems and toxic chemicals exposures;
- Learn what questions this community brought to their health care providers and how partnerships were formed to find solutions to community health problems;
- Learn how the Anniston community was able to successfully use biomonitoring data, to seek and receive compensation, health care, and remediation from the industry responsible for chemical pollution.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Biomonitoring: Community Advocacy and Policy Implications
The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA