CORE--Community Outreach & Education

社区外展和教育核心的目标是： 促进中西部农村社区和其他弱势群体的环境健康， 提供适当的、以科学和技术为基础的信息， 将环境健康研究成果转化为我们社区成员的知识。 环境卫生研究中心的COEC促进了环境卫生研究的广泛传播， 中心随着该中心已经成熟，专注于环境气道疾病，所以有这个推广。四 特别关注的领域：哮喘，氡，畜牧业的空气排放，以及可再生能源的 减少化石燃料排放的作用。如战略愿景（本申请第1章）所述， 中西部社区，特别是弱势群体和社区组织， 美国中部的地理区域应该得到最新的，适当的，科学和 我们寻求提供的技术信息。然而，COEC也作为一个地方，国家， 为农村环境卫生提供国家和国际资源。 美国农村地区面临的农业和农村环境危害风险增加， 暴露，获得医疗保健提供者的机会较少，通常会产生更多的不良健康结果 生活在城市地区的美国人。农民、农场家庭成员、儿童、老人和穷人， 特别是农村和环境疾病和伤害的风险。COEC将各种 EHSRC的环境卫生能力，以满足教育的需要， 更广泛的社区，促进环境健康，并为美国的心脏地带作为一个 协助制定环境卫生政策技术资源。

The goals of the Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC) are to: ¿ promote environmental health in rural Midwestern communities and other vulnerable populations, ¿ deliver appropriate, science and technology-based information and ¿ translate environmental health research results into knowledge for our community members. The COEC at the EHSRC promotes widespread dissemination of environmental health research of the Center. As the Center has matured to focus on environmental airway disease, so has this outreach. Four areas are of particular focus: asthma, radon, air emissions from animal agriculture, and renewable energy's role in reducing fossil fuel emissions. As described in Strategic Vision (Chapter 1 of this application), Midwestern communities and especially vulnerable populations and community organizations in a wide geographical area of the central United States deserve the most current, appropriate, science and technology-based information which we seek to provide. However, the COEC also serves as a local, state, national and international resource for rural environmental health. Rural Americans at increased risk from a number of agricultural and rural environmental hazards and exposures, have less access to health care providers, and generally have more adverse health outcomes than Americans living in urban areas. Farmers, farm family members, children, the elderly, and the poor are at particular risk for rural and environmental diseases and injuries. The COEC channels the diverse environmental health capabilities of the EHSRC toward meeting the educational needs of the broader community, promoting environmental health, and serving America's heartland as a technical resource to assist in making environmental health policy.