Community Research In Environmental Health

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ISBN: 9780754641766 | 0754641767
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/28/2005

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Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years. In this book, Doug Brugge and H. Patricia Hynes relate experience of multiple community collaborations across the United States and highlight the lessons to be learned for those involved in or embarking on community-collaborative research.

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List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Science with the People

(10)

Doug Brugge and H. Patricia Hynes

SECTION A: HOUSING

(68)

1 Public Health and the Physical Environment in Boston Public Housing: A Community-Based Survey and Action Agenda

(20)

H. Patricia Hynes, Doug Brugge, Julie Watts and Jody Lally

2 A Case Study of Community-Based Participatory Research Ethics: The Healthy Public Housing Initiative

(16)

Doug Brugge and Alison Kole

3 The Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project: Implementation of a Comprehensive Approach to Improving Indoor Environmental Quality for Low-Income Children with Asthma

(32)

James Krieger, Tim K. Takaro, Carol Allen, Lin Song, Marcia Weaver, Sanders Chai and Philip Dickey

SECTION B: OPEN SPACE

(64)

4 Environmental Justice Across the Mystic: Bridging Agendas in a Watershed

(20)

Julian Agyeman and Dale Bryan

5 A Program to Improve Urban Neighborhood Health Through Lead-Safe Yard Interventions

101

(22)

Jill S. Litt, H. Patricia Hynes, Paul Carroll, Robert Maxfield, Pat McLaine and Carol Kawecki

6 "We don't only grow vegetables, we grow values": Neighborhood Benefits of Community Gardens in Flint, Michigan

123

(22)

Katherine Alaimo, Thomas M. Reischl, Pete Hutchison and Ashley E. Atkinson

SECTION C: URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

143

(60)

7 An Environmental Health Survey of Residents of Boston Chinatown

145

(24)

Doug Brugge, Andrew Leong, Abigail Averbach and Fu Mei Cheung

8 Traffic Injury Data, Policy and Public Health: Lessons from Boston Chinatown

169

(18)

Doug Brugge, Zenobia Lai, Christina Hill and William Rand

9 Airborne Concentrations of PM.5 and Diesel Exhaust Particles on Harlem Sidewalks: A Community-Based Pilot Study

187

(16)

Patrick L. Kinney, Maneesha Aggarwal, Mary E. Northridge, Nicole A.H. Janssen and Peggy Shepard

SECTION D: ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE

203

(60)

10 Environmental Justice and Regional Inequality in Southern California: Implications for Future Research

205

(14)

Rachel Morello-Frosch, Manuel Pastor Jr., Carlos Porras and James Sadd

11 Participatory Research Strategies in Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities

219

(26)

Dianne Quigley, Virginia Sanchez, Dan Handy, Robert Goble and Patricia George

12 Social Responsibility and Research Ethics in Community-Driven Studies of Industrialized Hog Production

245

(20)

Steve Wing

SECTION E: LESSONS AND CONCLUSION

263

(2)

Afterword

265

(4)

H. Patricia Hynes and Doug Brugge

Index

269

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