ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE OUTREACH IN NORTHERN MANHATTAN

描述 环境正义运动阐明了这样一个事实，即 颜色不成比例地和过度地暴露在化学和 环境中的物理危害。虽然有令人震惊的本地化 环境不公正的例子，总体上，城市人口 暴露在多种危害下的颜色代表着相当大的比例 那些受到环境不公正政策和做法影响的人。 这个项目的目标是通知和授权以低收入为主的 曼哈顿北部三个城市社区有色人种收入调查 (具体地说，中央哈莱姆、西哈莱姆和华盛顿高地)关于 空气中颗粒物和一氧化碳的超标水平 严重的汽车、公共汽车和卡车交通以及其他环境污染物 他们会暴露在这种环境中。提出的实现这一目标的方法是 加强和完善社区居民之间新形成的联系， 环境健康研究人员，以及生活在和 通过以下方式在这些社区开展工作：通过公共论坛识别和 优先考虑社区环境问题；卫生保健干预 提供有针对性的环境暴露；环境健康 就已确定的危险对社区居民进行领导力培训；以及 环境与健康会议，交流思想和信息 令人关注的环境问题。这些努力的长期目标是 帮助干预和减少接触环境毒物，这些毒物是 对这些处于不利地位的人的健康造成不利影响， 曼哈顿北部主要是非洲裔美国人和拉美裔美国人。 通过仔细记录、评估和传播研究结果， 这里要开发的模型可以推广到其他社区和 经调整以适应区域环境问题。

DESCRIPTION The Environmental Justice Movement has illuminated the fact that people of color are disproportionately and excessively exposed to chemical and physical hazards in the environment. While there are egregious localized instances of environmental injustice, in aggregate, urban populations of color exposed to a multitude of hazards represent a sizable proportion of those who are affected by environmentally unjust policies and practices. The goal of this project is to inform and empower the predominantly low income people of color in three urban communities in Northern Manhattan (specifically, Central Harlem, West Harlem, and Washington Heights) about the excess levels of airborne particulate matter and carbon monoxide from heavy car, bus, and truck traffic as well as other environmental pollutants to which they are exposed. The proposed means of accomplishing this is to strengthen and elaborate newly formed linkages between community residents, environmental health researchers, and health care providers who live and work in these neighborhoods through: public forums to identify and prioritize community environmental concerns; interventions for health care providers on targeted environmental exposures; environmental health leadership training for community residents around identified hazards; and environment and health conferences to exchange ideas and information around environmental issues of concern. The long term goal of these efforts is to help intervene and reduce exposure to environmental toxicants which are adversely affecting the health of these disadvantaged, medically undeserved, predominantly African-American and Latino populations in Northern Manhattan. Through careful documentation, evaluation, and dissemination of findings, the model to be developed here can be generalized to other communities and adapted to accommodate regional environmental concerns.