Grantee Research Project Results
2012 Progress Report: Environmental Context of Health Disparities
EPA Grant Number: NIMHD007Title: Environmental Context of Health Disparities
Investigators: Juarez, Paul D , Hood, Darryl B , Mouton, Charles P. , Wansoo, Im
Current Investigators: Juarez, Paul D , Langston, Michael A , Hood, Darryl B , Wilson, Sacoby M. , Wansoo, Im , Lichtveld, Maureen , Estes, Maurice , Al-Hamdan, Mohammad , Matthews-Juarez, Patricia , Robinson, Paul , Levine, Robert , Crosson, William
Institution: Meharry Medical College
Current Institution: Meharry Medical College , Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science , National Space Science and Technology Center , Tulane University , University of Maryland - Baltimore , University of Tennessee
EPA Project Officer: Hahn, Intaek
Project Period: August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2014
Project Period Covered by this Report: September 21, 2011 through November 30,2012
Project Amount: $682,101
RFA: Transdisciplinary Networks of Excellence on the Environment and Health Disparities (2012) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Environmental Justice , Human Health
Objective:
The overall purpose of the environmental core supplement is to develop and support research activities that will enable us to study the environmental context of health disparities, improve access to healthy environments by disproportionately impacted communities, and improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities among communities at greatest risk. This research endeavor builds upon current innovations of the Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence (HDRCOE) at Meharry Medical College by establishing an Environmental Health Disparities Core (EHDC) and expanding the capacity of health services researchers and other biomedical scientists to use a trans-disciplinary systems approach to study the environmental context of health disparities. To achieve this goal, this supplement helped expand our current research program to: (1) incorporate data on the physical, social and environmental policies that will supplement currently funded health disparities research; (2) use High Throughput Analyses (HTA) to analyze relationships between health disparities and environmental factors; and (3) provide training in public participatory geographic information systems (PPGIS) and interactive mapping that supports community participation in the research process and in the translation, implementation and evaluation of targeted public health interventions.
Progress Summary:
Future Activities:
We plan to continue to extend the public health exposome paradigm across all of the Center Core activities. No major changes are expected in Center goals or objectives.
Journal Articles on this Report : 7 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Chen C-K, Bruce M, Tyler L, Brown C, Garrett A, Goggins S, Lewis-Polite B, Weriwoh ML, Juarez PD, Hood DB, Skelton T. Analysis of an environmental exposure health questionnaire in a metropolitan minority population utilizing logistic regression and Support Vector Machines. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):153-171. |
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Juarez P, Hood DB. Sequencing the public health genome. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):114-120. |
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Levine RS, Rust G, Aliyu M, Pisu M, Zoorob R, Goldzweig I, Juarez P, Husaini B, Hennekens CH. United States counties with low black male mortality rates. The American Journal of Medicine 2013;126(1):76-80. |
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Matthews-Juarez P. Developing a cadre of transdisciplinary health disparities researchers for the 21st century. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):121-128. |
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Mejia de Grubb MC, Kilbourne B, Kihlberg C, Levine RS, Hood DB. Demographic and geographic variations in breast cancer mortality among U.S. Hispanics. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):140-152. |
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Rehr R, Wilson S, Hood DB. The Maryland Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities: a review. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):129-139. |
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Robinson PL, Dominguez F, Teklehaimanot S, Lee M, Brown A, Goodchild M, Hood DB. Does distance decay modelling of supermarket accessibility predict fruit and vegetable intake by individuals in a large metropolitan area? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):172-185. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Exposome, public health exposome, GIS participatory base researchRelevant Websites:
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