NUCLEAR RISK MANAGEMENT FOR NATIVE COMMUNITIES

原住民社区的核风险管理

• 批准号: 2898353
• 负责人: Dianne P Quigley
• 金额: $ 26.9万
• 依托单位: CLARK UNIVERSITY (WORCESTER, MA)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 2003-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2898353
• 关键词: Native Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; community health services; education evaluation /planning; environmental contamination; environmental health; environmental radiation; health care personnel education; health education; health services research tag; medical outreach /case finding; radiation hazard; radiobiology

NRMNC was organized to strengthen community-based capabilities in managing the environmental health impacts of nuclear contamination in Native American communities affected by serious nuclear contamination. NRMNC seeks funding to support continued work at three sites. These include (1) Cherokee communities surrounding the Sequoyah Fuels nuclear facility, broadening the work of our Oklahoma NRMNC (2) Southern Paiute communities in S.E. Utah, severely affected by nuclear fallout from the Nevada Test Site; expanding the work of the NRMNC in the Great Basin communities and (3) villages surrounding Laguna Pueblo, NM, severely affected by the world's largest open pit uranium mine (now closed); strengthening their school-based curriculum strategies. The major goals for the next four years include: (1) Building and strengthening a long-term community-based environmental health infrastructure including funding and training community-based staff and advisory committees. This has been a successful activity of the Project in both Nevada and Oklahoma. We will expand the NV NRMNC to provide funds and training workshops for new staff and community advisors in S.E. Utah and add to staffing and expand community advisors in Oklahoma. We will assist these communities in developing an increasing sense of control and ownership over the environmental health planning process so that these infrastructures become long-term community-based institutions. (2) Continuing capacity-building at each site by conducting workshops for community staff, representatives and health care providers; conducting community, meetings, and developing educational materials on environmental health and nuclear risks. NRMNC project teams will present two-three two day workshops at each site, stressing radiation basics and health effects, exposure pathways, radionuclide impacts, health risk methodologies, site-specific contamination impacts, community context of contamination, etc. utilizing participatory teaching approaches with Native community members. Clark and site staff will continue to create much-needed community-based educational materials and publications to assist communities in comprehending the complexity of these issues. Laguna Pueblo will continue building a model school curriculum on uranium mining (3) Conducting community-based research with technical research on health impacts of nuclear contamination within each specific community context: and building and strengthening local knowledge programs at each site. In S.E. Utah, NRMNC will conduct technical research on exposures to S. Paiute community members during the 1950's, compiling data from published sources and modeling some doses from Native subsistence activities. Community researchers will conduct community interviews with Native elders in these areas to determine Native exposure scenarios, health concerns and other key local knowledge about contamination impacts. In Oklahoma, technical researchers will monitor and interpret documents produced on decommissioning options and impacts; community research will focus on a broader survey of community environmental health concerns and nuclear site management issues as well as the exploration of a community health survey near the nuclear facility (4) Facilitating community-based strategic-planning on the ongoing environmental health management of nuclear risks. All sites will be conducting strategic-planning for long-term environmental health interventions for their communities. This will take place during community advisory committee meetings and result in community-based hazards management plans. (5) Conducting outreach both to other Native communities and environmental health scientists. Comprehensive evaluation procedures will be implemented.

NRMNC 的组织目的是为了加强受严重核污染影响的美洲原住民社区管理核污染环境健康影响的社区能力。 NRMNC 寻求资金来支持三个地点的持续工作。 其中包括 (1) Sequoyah Fuels 核设施周围的切罗基社区，扩大了我们俄克拉荷马州 NRMNC 的工作范围 (2) 东南部的南派尤特社区犹他州受到内华达试验场核辐射的严重影响；扩大 NRMNC 在大盆地社区和 (3) 新墨西哥州普韦布洛拉古纳周围村庄的工作，这些村庄受到世界上最大的露天铀矿（现已关闭）的严重影响；加强校本课程策略。 未来四年的主要目标包括：（1）建设和加强长期社区环境卫生基础设施，包括资助和培训社区工作人员和咨询委员会。 这是该项目在内华达州和俄克拉荷马州开展的一项成功活动。 我们将扩大 NV NRMNC，为东南部的新员工和社区顾问提供资金和培训研讨会。犹他州并增加人员配备并扩大俄克拉荷马州的社区顾问。 我们将协助这些社区增强对环境健康规划过程的控制感和主人翁意识，使这些基础设施成为长期的社区机构。 (2) 通过为社区工作人员、代表和卫生保健提供者举办研讨会，继续在每个地点进行能力建设；举办社区活动、会议并编写有关环境健康和核风险的教育材料。 NRMNC 项目团队将在每个地点举办两到三天为期两天的研讨会，利用与原住民社区成员的参与式教学方法，强调辐射基础知识和健康影响、暴露途径、放射性核素影响、健康风险方法、特定地点的污染影响、污染的社区背景等。 克拉克和现场工作人员将继续制作急需的基于社区的教育材料和出版物，以帮助社区理解这些问题的复杂性。 拉古纳普韦布洛将继续建立铀矿开采示范学校课程 (3) 在每个特定社区背景下开展基于社区的研究，包括核污染对健康影响的技术研究：并在每个地点建立和加强当地知识计划。 在东南部犹他州 NRMNC 将针对 1950 年代 S. Paiute 社区成员的暴露情况进行技术研究，汇编已发表来源的数据并对原住民生存活动的一些剂量进行建模。社区研究人员将对这些地区的土著长者进行社区访谈，以确定土著接触情况、健康问题以及有关污染影响的其他重要当地知识。 在俄克拉荷马州，技术研究人员将监测和解释有关退役选项和影响的文件；社区研究将侧重于对社区环境健康问题和核场址管理问题进行更广泛的调查，以及探索核设施附近的社区健康调查 (4) 促进对核风险的持续环境健康管理进行基于社区的战略规划。 所有地点都将对其社区的长期环境健康干预措施进行战略规划。 这将在社区咨询委员会会议期间进行，并制定基于社区的危害管理计划。 (5) 向其他原住民社区和环境健康科学家开展外展活动。 将实施综合评估程序。