Diversity supplement to Urban Greenness and Cardiovascular Health

摘要 绿色心脏项目是一项严格定义的临床对照试验，研究住宅植被对 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 路易斯维尔社区绿地增加前后的社区特征， 肯塔基州。该项目的结果将阐明绿色对心血管健康的贡献， 为城市植被对社区环境的影响提供了新的见解。这些发现将是 直接关系到制定新的公共卫生政策和优化正在进行的种植工作， 世界各地的城市，以提高公共卫生。总的来说，绿色心脏项目将有助于 制定一个可模仿的范例，一个可以在两个发达国家的其他城市容易复制的模式， 和发展中国家 拟议的多样性补助金（父母补助金R 01 ES 029846 -03）将支助一名初级助理 教授娜塔莎·德贾内特博士是一位环境健康研究员，在空气质量方面有专长， 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，并提供 额外输入到其邻域特征评估中。社区有意义的参与 参与影响其环境健康的活动是实现环境正义的关键， 避免意想不到的后果，如中产阶级化和流离失所。DeJarnett博士的经验， 利益相关者参与国家会员协会和她对健康公平的热情确保了， 她将成为有效社区参与的有力贡献者，与 社区，并收集社区知情的数据。DeJarnett博士在空气质量和气候方面的专业知识 适应将通过纳入当地的空气质量评估， 温度梯度是空气质量的关键因素。通过公平的透镜检查温度梯度将 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 补充的首要假设是，股票知情的温度梯度和扩展的数据 收集市民对公平的看法，将有助改善空气质素和社区评估， 更好地解释绿色增加与空气质量和心血管疾病之间的关系 健康成果。 具体目标是：1.支持绿色心计划的社区参与活动， 制定社区参与和评估的新方法; 2.研究如何增加 区域绿化影响城市街区内的温度梯度。成功完成这些 目标将加强和丰富母项目，同时，使参与和培训的一个 环境健康科学研究的新初级研究员。

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.