REDUCING PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN MINORITY FAMILIES

描述(摘自申请者摘要) 这是一项基于社区的参与性研究的竞争性延续。 关注外来务工人员农药污染的项目 社区。俄勒冈健康科学大学研究中心 职业和环境毒理学与俄勒冈州儿童发展 联盟提议扩展一直以来的参与式研究模式 开发以增加社区能力并建立关于自然的知识 以及儿童接触杀虫剂的程度和由此对健康造成的影响。 该项目包括学术界代表的参与 机构、儿童和家庭教育、卫生和社会服务，以及 农业社区。调查人员提议延长他们的计划 在俄勒冈州以外的研究，以完成以下具体的 目的：1)建立和验证有机磷农药的代谢途径模型 对于居住在果园附近的儿童来说，暴露在空气中。2)开展 农药残留分析的纵向调查，工作实践，家 流动人口家庭暴露的特点及生物学标志物 一年中居住在多个家庭和社区。3)评估 说西班牙语和西班牙语的拉丁裔儿童的特定神经行为结果 土著语言，生活在有测量到的农药残留的家庭和 生活在可测量到的农药残留极低的家庭中的儿童。4) 评估包括健康在内的可接受干预方法的有效性 关于改变行为和减少环境暴露的教育和 减少移民农业社区的农药暴露。这个 该项目还包括加强和扩大伙伴关系的机制 在外来务工人员社区中增加对 社区解决环境暴露和健康问题。培训 年，为来自拉丁裔农场工人社区的青年提供了机会 受影响社区的环境问题。除了测量 我们在改变农药暴露方面的研究干预结果和 由此产生的健康影响，他们已经纳入了一项综合评估 计划包括记录增加的研究能力的措施 社区，通过获得进一步努力的额外资金来发挥杠杆作用， 可持续性、适合文化的工具、政策或制度变化，以及 对赛场的影响。

DESCRIPTION (Taken from Applicant's Abstract) This is a competing continuation of a community-based participatory research program focusing on pesticide contamination in migrant farm worker communities. Oregon Health Sciences University Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology and the Oregon Child Development Coalition propose to extend the participatory research model that has been developed to increase community capacity and to build knowledge on the nature and extent of childhood exposures to pesticide and resulting health effects. The project includes involvement from representatives of academic institutions, child and family educational, health, and social services, and the agricultural community. The investigators propose to extend their program of research beyond the state of Oregon to accomplish the following specific aims: 1) Develop and validate a pathway model of organophosphate pesticide exposure for children residing near tree fruit orchards. 2) Conduct a longitudinal investigation of pesticide residue analysis, work practices, home characteristics and biological markers of exposure in migrant families residing in multiple homes and communities throughout a year. 3) Evaluate specific neurobehavioral outcomes in Latino children who speak Spanish and indigenous languages, living in homes with measured pesticide residues and in children living in homes with minimal measurable pesticide residues. 4) Assess the effectiveness of accepted methods of intervention including health education and environmental exposure reduction on changing behavior and reducing pesticide exposure in the migrant agricultural community. The project also includes mechanisms to strengthen and expand the partnerships among migrant farm worker communities to increase the capacity of the community to address issues of environmental exposures and health. Training opportunities are provided for youth from the Latino farm worker community in environmental issues in affected communities. In addition to measuring the outcome of our research interventions in modifying exposures to pesticides and resulting health effects they have incorporated a comprehensive evaluation plan including measures to document increased research capacity in the community, leveraging by obtaining additional funding for further efforts, sustainability, culturally appropriate tools, policy or systems change, and impact on the field.