Shared Purpose: Leveraging a Community-Academic Partnership to Increase Local Environmental Health Awareness via Community Science.
Shared Purpose: Leveraging a Community-Academic Partnership to Increase Local Environmental Health Awareness via Community Science.
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DOI：
10.35844/001c.38475
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发表时间：
2022
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Butsch Kovacic, Melinda
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作者：
Martin, Lisa J;Hill, Vincent;Maples, Curtis;Baker, Theresa;Elshaer, Shereen;Butsch Kovacic, Melinda
当人们生活、学习、工作、娱乐和祈祷的地方受到社会不平等的影响时，环境因素会导致疾病和健康差距。明确将当地环境暴露与人类健康联系起来的非正规方案可能对风险最大的社区具有重大价值。这项工作的目的是与所有年龄段的青年和社区利益攸关方共同创建相关和参与性教育，通过实践社区科学经验，更明确地强调当地环境与社区成员健康之间的联系。我们的经验有助于加强我们的社区-学术伙伴关系，并建立一条路线，以创建和定制非正式编程，以满足当地需求，并与学术合作伙伴一起参与社区科学。我们生成了两种截然不同的社区科学邻里审计工具，旨在以不同的方式吸引我们的社区合作伙伴，并告知社区参与者他们的当地环境及其对健康的作用。通过社区会议，我们从利益相关者那里获得了重要的见解。虽然这两种工具和所收集的相关数据都不被认为具有科学普遍性，但我们目前和今后的工作都受益于从这些工具的创建和共享中汲取的重要经验教训。
Environmental factors can lead to disease and health disparities when the places where people live, learn, work, play and pray are burdened by social inequities. Non-formal programs that explicitly connect local environmental exposures and human health could be of great value to communities at greatest risk. The purpose of this work was to co-create relevant and engaging education with youth and community stakeholders of all ages that more explicitly emphasizes the link between the local environment and community members’ health through a hands-on community science experience. Our experiences helped strengthen our community-academic partnership and establish a route to create and tailor informal programming to meet local needs and engage people in community science with academic partners. We generated two distinctly different community science neighborhood audit tools designed to differently engage our community partners and inform community participants of their local environments and its role on their health. Through community meetings, we garnered critical insight from our stakeholders. While neither of the tools and accompanying data collected were deemed to be scientifically generalizable, our ongoing and future work has benefited from important lessons learned from their creation and sharing.