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Environmental Health and Justice in Norton Sound, Alaska

阿拉斯加州诺顿湾的环境健康与正义

基本信息

批准号：
7887261
负责人：
PAMELA Kay MILLER
金额：
$ 32.39万
依托单位：
ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS (ACAT)
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-06 至 2012-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7887261
关键词：
Address Administrator Affect Alaska Alaska Native Arctic Regions Body Burden Child Collaborations Communication Communities Community Health Congenital Abnormality Data Databases Development Diagnosis Disease Educational Curriculum Environment Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Eskimo Population Exposure to Food Fostering Frequencies Future Global Warming Government Agencies Harvest Health Health Personnel Health Professional Healthcare Healthcare Systems Human Human Milk Incidence Indigenous Inupiat Island Justice Left Life Methodology Military Personnel Mission Modeling Monitor Mothers Nature Pilot Projects Protocols documentation Registries Research Research Personnel Rural Saints Sampling Scientist Secure Series Site Solomon Islands Teleconferences Training Training Programs Wales Work base contaminant transport design effective therapy environmental justice meetings programs remediation sound tool wasting

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The purpose of this project is to work in partnership with fifteen communities in the Norton Sound region of Alaska to find effective means to limit the release and mitigate the human health effects of contaminants in the natural environment. The majority of the residents of these villages are Inupiat and Yupik, indigenous people who depend on the harvest of wild foods to sustain them and their ways of life. Our collaborative work will include constructing a database of information regarding formerly used defense sites (FUDS) in the region and the contaminants found at these sites. Building on our successful work at St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, we will develop a model for exchanging information among the communities about those strategies that proved effective with the government agencies responsible for clean up of FUDS in the region. We will work with village leaders to provide training to oversee FUDS clean-up work and establish independent monitoring programs for contaminants. Together, we will develop an environmental health care curriculum for the diagnosis and treatment of human health problems associated with environmental contaminants. We will work with regional health care providers to develop an information exchange for health care professionals in the Norton Sound region to discuss diagnosis and effective treatment of human health effects of environmental contaminants. We will analyze historical data from the Alaska Birth Defects Registry and work with regional health care providers to collect data on the frequency of birth defects among children in the region. We will collect breast milk samples from new mothers in the region to analyze them for the presence of contaminants. This pilot study will help residents design a methodology for conducting research on contaminants that may be important factors affecting the health of their communities so they can be fully engaged in future human health and contaminants studies planned for the region. This methodology will include protocols for environmental sampling near FUDS in the region, examining body burdens of contaminants in residents and documenting incidences of environmental diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）