Linking Breast Cancer Advocacy and Environmental Justice

将乳腺癌宣传与环境正义联系起来

• 批准号: 7071690
• 负责人: JULIA Green BRODY
• 金额: $ 23.13万
• 依托单位: SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-10 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7071690
• 关键词: Internet; air pollution; air sampling /monitoring; biohazard control; biohazard detection; breast neoplasms; clinical research; community health services; consumer product; data collection; dust; endocrine disorder; environment related neoplasm /cancer; environmental exposure; ethics; geographic difference; handbook; hazardous substances; health education; human subject; information dissemination; interview; method development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This project links breast cancer and environmental justice advocacy through a variety of approaches conducted by Silent Spring Institute, a community-based breast cancer research organization; Communities for a Better Environment, an environmental justice organization and partners from Brown University. The project will conduct home environmental exposure assessments, collecting air and dust samples to assess indoor levels of pollutants, especially endocrine disruptors that are potentially linked to breast cancer, reproductive and neurological development, and other health outcomes. Data collection, analysis, community education, and organizational linkages will occur in two locations - Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a region of unexplained high breast cancer incidences that has been the focus of prior work of Silent Spring Institute, and a new site in Richmond, California, that is largely composed of people of color and impacted by industrial facilities. Study results will be shared both as aggregate information presented through community meetings, news media, and on-line, and as individual report-back information to study participants. Using both report-back approaches, this study will seek to maximize understanding of exposure data and its limitations, and address the ethical issues of ensuring community and individual autonomy, the right to know, and ultimately the right to act on scientific information by reducing exposures. Specific aims for this project include: 1) Conduct community-based exposure assessment research, collecting dust and air samples to assess levels and sources of pollutants in homes located in Cape Cod and Richmond; 2) Link breast cancer and environmental justice advocacy through community-based outreach, including public meetings, web sites, and publications; 3) Develop ethical methods for reporting back study results to communities and individual study participants, and produce a handbook for general use in reporting results of community exposure studies; 4) Pilot test an intervention to reduce household pollutant levels.

描述（由申请人提供） 该项目通过基于社区的乳腺癌研究组织Silent Spring Institute进行的各种方法将乳腺癌和环境正义倡导联系起来；布朗大学的环境正义组织和合作伙伴的社区，环境正义组织和合作伙伴。该项目将进行家庭环境暴露评估，收集空气和灰尘样品，以评估室内污染物的水平，尤其是与乳腺癌，生殖和神经系统发育以及其他健康结果有关的内分泌干扰物。数据收集，分析，社区教育和组织联系将发生在两个地点 - 马萨诸塞州科德角，马萨诸塞州，这是一个无法解释的高乳腺癌发病率的地区，这一直是寂静的春季学院先前工作的重点，以及加利福尼亚州里士满的一个新地点，在很大程度上由有色人种组成，并受到工业设施的影响。研究结果将作为通过社区会议，新闻媒体和在线介绍的汇总信息共享，以及作为研究参与者的个人报道信息。使用这两种报告背包方法，本研究将寻求最大程度地了解暴露数据及其局限性，并解决确保社区和个人自治，了解的权利，以及最终通过减少暴露的科学信息行动的权利。该项目的具体目的包括：1）进行基于社区的暴露评估研究，收集灰尘和空气样本，以评估位于科德角和里士满的房屋中污染物的水平和来源； 2）通过基于社区的外展活动将乳腺癌和环境正义倡导联系起来，包括公开会议，网站和出版物； 3）开发道德方法，以向社区和个体研究参与者报告回头研究结果，并制作一本用于报告社区暴露研究结果的手册； 4）试点测试一种干预措施，以降低家庭污染物水平。