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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Evidence of the Environment's Relationship to Health
4016.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Evidence of the Environment's Relationship to Health
The session will describe the relationship between neighborhood factors and individual physical activity outcomes; food availability and food store types on low-income urban neighborhoods; policy; educational approaches to address non-paint sources of lead exposure and data needed to support community level drinking water studies.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to describe: the relationship between neighborhood factors and individual physical activity outcomes; food availability and food store types on low-income urban neighborhoods; policy; educational approaches to address non-paint sources of lead exposure and data needed to support community level drinking water studies.
Moderator(s):Stefanie P. Fiddner, MPH
8:30 AMGrassroots involvement in policy development initiatives through coalition efforts
Elisa Nicholas, MD, MSPH, Maura W. Dwyer
8:45 AMInnovative policy strategies and community partnerships for eliminating childhood lead poisoning
Danielle Greene, DrPH, Deborah Nagin, MPH, Parisa Tehranifar, DrPH, Carol Steinsapir
9:00 AMAssessing the neighborhood retail environment for community planning: Food availability and tobacco advertising in low-income Brooklyn neighborhoods
Regina Graham, MPH, Leslie D. Kaufman, PhD, Zulma Novoa, Adam Karpati, MD, MPH
9:15 AMBuilt Environment: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD, Larry Cohen, MSW
9:30 AMCharacterizing arsenic in eastern Maryland groundwater: A community/academic collaboration
Robin Streeter, MS, MPH, Beth A. Resnick, MPH, Frank C. Curriero, PhD, Joanna Zablotsky, MPH, Keeve Nachman, MHS, Thomas A. Burke, PhD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Environment; Food and Nutrition; Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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