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Session: Built Environment Institute VII: Building Health Back into Community - Toward the Creation of a More Sustainable and Healthful, Less Toxic Built Environment, Part II
4266.1: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Roundtable
Built Environment Institute VII: Building Health Back into Community - Toward the Creation of a More Sustainable and Healthful, Less Toxic Built Environment, Part II
This session builds on the oral presentations in Part I, which explained the links between environmental health, occupational safety, and sustainable development and the importance of living wages and elimination of persistent toxics in specification of products and services for facilities.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: Explain the links between environmental health, occupational safety, and sustainable development. Understand the importance of social factors in the lifecycle cost evaluation of "green" products. Discuss real world examples of these applications in creating more a sustainable and healthful, less toxic built environment.
Organizer(s):Neal L. Rosenblatt, MS, MS-C
Karla R. Armenti, ScD, MS
Moderator(s):Jonathan Herz, AIA
Table 1Working toward a healthy, sustainable future: Taking positive action in your schools and communities
Lois Marie Gibbs
Table 2Creating a More Healthful, Less Toxic Built Environment *
Arthur B. Weissman, PhD
Table 3Environmentally Preferable Purchasing at the Pentagon *
Teresa R. Pohlman, PhD
Table 4Environmental stewardship at Kaiser Permanente *
Lizabeth Taghavi
Table 5Importance of including construction worker safety and health in green building: An integrated approach *
Karla Armenti, ScD, MS
Table 6Global economy: How trade affects our health
Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD
Table 7Balancing the green, social, and built infrastructures at a landscape, community and site-specific scale: A case study presentation *
Patrick Miller, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Health Administration; Occupational Health and Safety; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA