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4087.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
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| This session will provide an overview of front line environmental health actions within a public health framework, in assessment, assurance, and policy development including advocacy and consumer activism in increasing awareness and assertive action in protecting the consumer in homes, recreation, food, health service delivery. Front line experiences will be shared that focus on partnerships between health care faculty, health departments, consumers, public health leaders, non profit health services delivery systems that focus on increasing care to vulnerable populations to eliminate disparities in health outcomes. A new vision for integrating the environment and health services delivery to address health disparities, using the Green Design Charrette as a planning tool for an integrative approach to environmental health, will be discussed from the viewpoint of increasing access to sustainable primary care services for vulnerable populations in the District of Columbia. Attention will be focused on incorporating the use of sustainable materials in implementing the vision. Issues related to protection of the food supply from preparation, distribution, to consumption in the home will be highlighted, including the contribution of local health departments. The importance of partnerships to advocate for environmental protection is emphasized through the tribal-University Oklahoma case study "Tribal Efforts Against Lead" to address childhood lead poisoning in a rural area contaminated with mine waste in northeastern Oklahoma, with practical implications for front line public health workers. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. To identify every day environmental concerns in assessment, assurance, and advocacy for clean water and air, soil, and safe food in everyday living, working, and health service delivery 2. To describe a new vision for integrating the environment and health services delivery, including sustainable materials, to address health disparities Including discussion of the Green Design Charrette as a planning tool for integrative approach to environmental health service delivery and worksite. 3. To analyze practical examples of assuring safe food, housing, and water through partnerships with health professionals and consumers | |||
| Irene O. A. Sandvold, DrPH, CNM | |||
| Overview: Environmental health issues for consumers, providers, workplace, and services Shelley Hearne, DrPH, MPH | |||
A new vision for integrating the environment and health service delivery to address health disparities ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Ruth Lubic, EdD, CNM, Linda Randolph, MD, MPH, Sigi Koko, MArch | |||
| Protecting public health through environmental controls in food processing Garry L. McKee, PhD, MPH | |||
| A tribal-university partnership to prevent lead poisoning in children Michelle C. Kegler, DrPH, Sally Whitecrow-Ollis, MS | |||
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| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Special Sessions | ||
| Endorsed by: | Environment | ||
| CE Credits: | Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||