Grantee Research Project Results
2013 Progress Report: Analysis and Action on the Environmental Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
EPA Grant Number: NIMHD006Title: Analysis and Action on the Environmental Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
Investigators: Glover, Saundra , Wilson, Sacoby M. , Williams, Edith , Brandt, Heather , Zhang, Hongmei
Institution: University of South Carolina at Columbia , University of Maryland - College Park
EPA Project Officer: Hahn, Intaek
Project Period: August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2014
Project Period Covered by this Report: September 21, 2012 through February 28,2013
Project Amount: $669,258
RFA: Transdisciplinary Networks of Excellence on the Environment and Health Disparities (2012) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Environmental Justice , Human Health
Objective:
The objective of the research is to expand the capacity of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)-funded Centers of Excellence (CoE) to engage communities of color impacted by health disparities with a focus on environmental justice and environmental health disparity issues within South Carolina. Also, to take resident expertise in environmental, social and behavioral science at the University of South Carolina-Institute for Partnership to Eliminate Health Disparities (USC-IPEHD) and University of Maryland (UMD) and an expansive community network to conduct environmental, community-based participatory and translational research focused on addressing environmental stressors in South Carolina. The activities proposed in this project will: 1) build a program to assess environmental health disparities in the state through data collected by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program; 2) assess community perception of environmental determinants of cancer risk and disparities in rural and urban communities in South Carolina using a mixed methods approach; and 3) engage and train members of community-based organizations that represent environmental justice communities and environmental health disparity populations in the use of the block assessment methodology to identify ecological stressors and intervene to address disparities in burden, exposure, and health.
Progress Summary:
Future Activities:
- Meet with community partners to discuss development of the EJRADAR tool and planning of the Fall CAPs conference.
- Continue analyses with NATA dataset, review neurological and respiratory risk data, and continue planning the CAPs conference.
- Begin analyses of NATA neurological and respiratory risk data for South Carolina, expand development of the EJRADAR tool to include data for entire state of South Carolina, and continue planning the CAPs conference.
- Submit manuscripts for NATA assessments using neurological and respiratory risk data for the state of South Carolina, continue planning the CAPs Conference, which will include presentations related to work of EHCORE including Projects #1-3.
- Continue analyses of salutogens/pathogens data, link to data from CBA (Project #3), develop and submit manuscripts on salutogens/pathogens analyses, pre-launch EJRADAR, which will include some of the EHCORE data, and continue planning of the CAPs Conference.
- Host the CAPs conference at Trident Tech in Charleston, South Carolina, September 6-8, 2013.
- Analyze and interpret Photovoice data.
- Continue writing manuscripts on Photovoice results (will continue throughout project period).
- Draft and finalize environmental health survey/revisions.
- Finalize survey in Teleform or Qualtrics.
- Continue preparation of publications on Photovoice activities. Submit additional abstracts for presentation during the next 6-month period.
- Begin environmental health survey Metropolitan Charleston (fielding period: March-August 2013).
- Manage the data.
- Complete the Orangeburg Photovoice booklet.
- Begin environmental health survey Orangeburg (fielding period: April-September 2013)
- Manage the data.
- End survey Metropolitan Charleston | Data management
- Complete the Orangeburg survey and manage the data.
- Analyze and interpret the survey data.
- Prepare a manuscript (will continue throughout project period).
- Integrate Photovoice and survey data to inform next steps in collaboration with community partners.
- Prepare future research grant applications to support next steps.
- Collect additional data where gaps exist for both North Charleston and Orangeburg.
- Collect ratings for the physical features in North Charleston.
- Enter all CBA data collected for North Charleston, Orangeburg and Holly Hill.
- Analyze social and physical feature data for North Charleston.
- Draft at least two manuscripts for the North Charleston CBA data.
Journal Articles:
No journal articles submitted with this report: View all 24 publications for this projectSupplemental Keywords:
salutogenic and pathogenic infrastructure; environmental hazards in South Carolina; Superfund sites; Brownfields; Photovoice (documentary photography), environmental health survey, community-based approaches, community block assessment, Geographic Information System, GIS, spatial analysis, environmental justice, EJ, environmental health disparities, cancer risk, neurological risk, respiratory riskRelevant Websites:
Coordinating Center of Excellence in the Social Promotion of Health Equity through Research, Education, and Community Engagement (CCE-SPHERE):
Progress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.