Diversity supplement to Urban Greenness and Cardiovascular Health

摘要 绿心计划是一项严格定义的临床对照试验，旨在研究居住植物对 心血管健康和疾病风险。该项目评估心血管健康和疾病以及 路易斯维尔社区增加绿地前后的社区特征， 肯塔基州。该项目的结果将阐明绿色对心血管健康的贡献和 对城市植被对社区环境的影响提供新的见解。这些发现将是 与制定新的公共卫生政策和优化正在进行的种植工作直接相关 世界各地的城市加强公共卫生。总体而言，绿心计划将为 制定一种可模仿的范例，一种可以很容易地在两个发达城市的其他城市复制的模式 和发展中国家。 拟议的多样性补助金(家长补助金R01 ES029846-03)将支助一名初级助理 娜塔莎·德贾内特教授是一名环境健康研究员，她在空气质量方面拥有专业知识， 气候健康和心血管疾病风险。这一多样性补充将有助于拟议的 绿色心脏计划，加强社区参与和外展活动，并通过提供 对其邻里特征评估的额外投入。社区的有意义的参与 成员参与影响其环境健康的活动是实现环境正义和 避免意想不到的后果，如士绅化和流离失所。DeJarnett博士的经验 利益相关者在国家成员协会的参与以及她对卫生公平的热情确保了 她将成为有效社区参与的有力贡献者，与 社区，并收集社区信息数据。德贾内特博士在空气质量和气候方面的专业知识 适应将扩大父母赠款中空气质量评估的稳健性，通过纳入当地 温度梯度是空气质量的关键因素。通过公平意愿的镜头检查温度梯度 更准确地定义绿色、空气质量和心血管健康之间的关系。因此， 副刊的总体假设是股权知情的温度梯度和扩展的数据 收集公众对公平的看法将加强空气质量和社区评估，以 更好地解释增加绿色化与由此产生的空气质量和心血管之间的关系 健康结果。 具体目标是：1.支持绿心计划的社区参与倡议和 开发社区参与和评估的新方法，以及2.研究如何增加 区域绿化程度会影响城市社区内的温度梯度。成功完成这些任务 AIMS将加强和丰富母项目，同时使 环境健康科学研究的新初级调查员。

ABSTRACT The Green Heart Project is a rigorously defined clinical controlled trial on the effect of residential vegetation on cardiovascular health and disease risk. The project evaluates cardiovascular health and disease as well as neighborhood characteristics before and after increasing greenspaces in neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky. The results of this project will elucidate the contribution of greenness to cardiovascular health and provide new insights into the effects of urban vegetation on community environments. These findings will be directly relevant to the development of new public health policies and optimization of ongoing planting efforts in cities around the world to enhance public health. Collectively, the Green Heart Project will contribute to the formulation of an imitable paradigm, a model that could be readily replicated in other cities in both developed and developing countries. The proposed diversity supplement (parent grant R01 ES029846-03) will support a junior-level assistant professor, Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, who is an environmental health researcher with expertise in air quality, climate-health, and cardiovascular disease risk. This diversity supplement will contribute to the proposed Green Heart Project by strengthening its community engagement and outreach activities and by providing additional input into its neighborhood characteristics assessment. Meaningful participation of community members in activities that affect their environmental health is key toward achieving environmental justice and avoiding unintended consequences, like gentrification and displacement. Dr. DeJarnett’s experience with stakeholder engagement at national membership associations and her passion for health equity ensure that she will be a strong contributor toward effective community engagement, collaborating with members of the community, and collecting community-informed data. Dr. DeJarnett’s expertise in air quality and climate adaptation will expand the robustness of the air quality assessment in the parent grant by incorporating local temperature gradients, a key factor of air quality. Examining temperature gradients through a lens of equity will more accurately define the relationship between greenness, air quality, and cardiovascular health. Thus, the overarching hypothesis of the supplement is that equity-informed temperature gradients and expanded data collection of community perceptions on equity will enhance the air quality and community assessments to better explain the relationship between increasing greenness and resulting air quality and cardiovascular health outcomes. The specific aims are to: 1. Support the community engagement initiatives of the Green Heart Project and develop new approaches to community engagement and assessment, and 2. Examine how an increase in area greenness affects temperature gradients within an urban neighborhood. Successful completion of these aims will enhance and enrich the parent project, while at the same time, enable participation and training of a new junior investigator in environmental health science research.