Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities

建设绿色健康文化：参与式学习和行动，解决服务不足的农村社区的空气和土壤质量问题

• 批准号: 10447415
• 负责人: Monica D. Ramirez-Andreotta
• 金额: $ 26.95万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10447415
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affect; Agriculture; Air; Area; Arizona; Arts; Asthma; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Complex; County; Critical Thinking; Data; Data Collection; Decision Making; Development; Dust; Ecosystem; Education; Engineering; Environment; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Health; Environmental Impact; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Pollution; Environmental Risk Factor; Environmental Science; Environmental Wind; Exposure to; Female; Fostering; Future; Goals; Health; Health Hazards; Health education; Immersion; Incidence; Individual; Inhalation; Internet; Justice; Knowledge; Laboratories; Lead; Learning; Mathematics; Metals; Modeling; Motivation; Outcome; Participant; Plant Roots; Policies; Population; Poverty; Preparation; Prevention; Process; Protocols documentation; Public Participation; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Rural; Rural Population; Sampling; Science; Scientific Inquiry; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Social Justice; Soil; Students; Technology; Underrepresented Populations; Visual; Vulnerable Populations; Work; Youth; age group; certificate program; climate change; cohesion; college; community building; community center; community science; data literacy; data sharing; data visualization; design; education research; environmental justice; evidence base; hazard; health equity; health literacy; high school; instrument; intersectionality; learning engagement; literacy; mathematical learning; medically underserved; member; programs; rural counties; rural health disparities; rural underserved; rurality; science education; skills; social factors; social health determinants; teacher; tool; toxicant; twelfth grade; underserved community; urban area

PROJECT SUMMARY The Integrated Environmental Science and Health Risk Laboratory, in collaboration with multiple Arizona partners, propose to launch the project, “Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities”. Our overall goal is to create a national deep engagement learning model of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education that empowers students as environmental health advisory board members, photographers, scientists, and designers living in environmental justice (EJ) communities. EJ communities refers to areas affected by disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and increased vulnerability to those hazards. There are fundamental and critical challenges that exist in environmental justice communities. Youth growing up in these spaces need the preparation to navigate through these challenges and be the future pillars of structural change. Students will acquire the tools, skills and support needed to (1) interpret intersectionality and environmental data and (2) communicate project results and recommend actions at local, regional, and national levels. The proposed project centers on the social and environmental factors that affect health and justice for 8th - 12th graders in rural Arizona communities with significant environmental health hazards posed from historical or active resource extraction activities. Intersectionality and environmental health and data literacy are essential for deriving meaning from the results of scientific inquiry. Potential outcomes for the proposed project are increased understanding and integration of intersectionality, environmental health (specifically air and soil quality), and data literacy among both youth and researchers, and the application such information to achieve social justice and health equity in EJ communities. This research education program aims to leverage intersectionality’s transformational power and help move the collaborating EJ communities closer to achieving social justice and health equity. Through the approach and rigorous learning research, the outcomes of this work will provide the evidence-base needed for building a culture of health in the green.

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