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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: How Environment Can Affect Health: A Selection of Health Outcomes
5006.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM
Poster
How Environment Can Affect Health: A Selection of Health Outcomes
This poster session will describe environment and health links. A variety of hazards and health outcomes will be explored including the impact of exposure to allergens, heavy metals, and chemicals and the potential links to respiratory, autoimmune, and reproductive outcomes. Findings from these efforts will help guide future research and develop programs and policies to address environmental health threats.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to: 1. identify connections between environment and health 2. describe specific health outcomes which could potentially be linked to environmental exposures 3. understand potential strategies to reduce risk of environmental expsoures
Organizer(s):Beth Resnick, MPH
Claire Barnett
Leon F. Vinci, MPH
Board 1A Creatinine Correction for Children’s Urinary Pesticide Concentrations
Ruth H. Allen, PhD, MPH, Anuradha Kodali, MBBS, MPH, Dana B. Barr, PhD, Larry L. Needham, PhD, David T. Mage, PhD
Board 2Finger Lakes home environment asthma program (HEAP)
Mary Beth Schlabach, RN, MS, AE-C, C. Andrew Aligne, MD MPH
Board 3Environment of the Battlefield: Depleted Uranium and Veterans' Health
Holly Coulon, BSN, Richard David, MD, Douglas Rokke, PhD
Board 4Environmental risk factors, hypertension, and asthma among Arab Americans in the metro Detroit area
Mary Johnson, MSc, Jerome Nriagu, PhD, Adnan Hammad, PhD, Kathryn Savoie, PhD, Hikmet J. Jamil, MD PhD FFOMI
Board 5Epidemiology and Linking of Oklahoma Childhood Blood Lead Poisoning and Environmental Hazards, Oklahoma, 1995-2003
Elizabeth P. Kruger, MPH, Hub B. Baggett, MS, Amy E. Fletcher, BA, Cheryl Barr, MPH, Edd Rhoades, MD, MPH
Board 6Wipe out lead New Jersey: A primary prevention approach to reduce childhood lead poisoning
Merle J. Weitz, MSW, Adrienne Mossop, BS, Judy Donlen, RN, DNSc, JD
Board 7Further evidence that pristane and mercury may induce lupus in humans
Pamela Anderson-Mahoney, PhD, James G. Dahlgren, MD, Jenny Kotlerman, MS, Harpreet Takhar, MPH
Board 8Co-exposure to bulk dust and bioaerosol allergens and asthma triggers in the home environment
Marie Lynn Miranda, PhD, Wayne R. Thomann, Dr PH, Brack W. Hale, PhD, Matthew Stiegel, Jeffrey A. Davis, M. Alicia Overstreet Galeano
Board 9Fish consumption practices of California women: Results of two surveys
Jessica Kaslow, MS, MPH, Erica Weis, MPH, Alyce Ujihara, MA, Diana Lee, MPH, RD, Sun Hyung Lee, MPH, May Lynn Tan, MHS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA