Community Mapping of Environmental Hazards and Barriers in an Immigrant Populatio

描述（由申请人提供）：移民人口中的环境危害和障碍的社区绘图摘要拟议的项目解决了广泛的挑战领域（09），健康差异和具体的挑战主题09-ES-101，“通过环境公共卫生能力建设建立研究人员和社区之间的信任”。它的目的是解决一个重大的差距，在健康预防少数民族社区汇集研究人员和成员的一个服务不足的种族/民族社区，以产生一个协作开发的邻里环境危害和障碍，以获得医疗保健的配置文件。特别是，这项工作将建立在一个以社区为基础的发展参与性研究项目的基础上，该项目的重点是最近备受关注的新兴美甲沙龙行业中化学品暴露的健康风险，该行业在加州由越南移民工人主导。以此为起点，我们将开展一个平等伙伴关系社区绘图项目，将研究伙伴使用地理信息系统（GIS）工具的专业知识与社区伙伴的知识和看法结合起来，以描述影响越南移民健康风险的邻里工作和居住环境。预计这一伙伴关系将提供更多的洞察力，与美国的越南移民越来越多的不良健康经验相关的因素，以及提供一个机会，使社区成员能够更好地说明和表达他们对医疗机构和地方政府的关注。这个社区绘图项目的目的是：1）通过一系列与越南社区成员的重点小组，按一般年龄组分层，确定社区认为的经济、环境、社会和建筑环境压力和获得健康的障碍。2)使用现有的数据源创建初始社区地图，以描述各个社区在经济、环境、社会和建筑环境压力源方面的差异。3)开发和实施社区绘图调查工具，用于收集社区一级的信息，以改进基线社区地图（目标2）。a.开发社区摸底调查工具，收集关于社区感受到的压力源和障碍的信息（目标1中确定的）。B.让越南美甲沙龙的工作人员参与社区数据的收集，以描述社区感知的压力源和障碍。C.收集柴油机废气的空气监测数据，这是一种已知的高度社区关注的空气污染物，以评估各社区之间的水平差异，并评估有关这种污染物的现有数据。4)使用现有和新收集的数据（目标3）开发增强的社区地图，以描述邻里经济，环境，社会和建筑环境压力因素的变化。移民人口项目叙述中的环境危害和障碍的社区绘图拟议的社区绘图项目旨在通过汇集研究人员和服务不足的种族/民族社区的成员来解决少数民族社区在健康预防方面的主要差距，以产生协作开发的邻里环境危害和卫生保健获取障碍的概况。以越南移民人口为重点，我们将开展一个平等伙伴关系测绘项目，将研究伙伴使用地理信息系统（GIS）工具的专业知识与社区伙伴的知识和看法结合起来，以描述影响越南移民健康风险的邻里工作和居住环境。这项工作将建立在一个以社区为基础的参与性研究项目的基础上，该项目的重点是最近对新兴的美甲沙龙行业中化学品暴露的健康风险的高度关注，该行业在加州由越南移民工人主导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Community Mapping of Environmental Hazards and Barriers in an Immigrant Population Abstract The proposed project addresses broad Challenge Area (09), Health Disparities, and specific Challenge Topic 09-ES-101, "Building trust between researchers and communities through capacity building in Environmental Public Health". It is designed to address a major gap in health prevention for minority communities by bringing together researchers and members of an underserved racial/ethnic community to produce a collaboratively developed profile of neighborhood environmental hazards and barriers to health care access. In particular, this work will build on a developmental community-based participatory research project focused on the recently high profile concerns of health risks from chemical exposures in the burgeoning nail salon industry, an industry dominated in California by Vietnamese immigrant workers. With that as a starting point, we will conduct an equal partnership community mapping project, bringing expertise in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) tools from the research partner together with the knowledge and perceptions of the community partner to characterize neighborhood work and residential environments influencing the health risks of Vietnamese immigrants. It is anticipated that this partnership will provide greater insights into factors associated with the increasing adverse health experience of Vietnamese immigrants in the US, as well as provide an opportunity to empower community members to better illustrate and articulate their concerns to the health care establishment and local government. The aims of this community mapping project are to: 1) Identify community-perceived economic, environmental, social and built environmental stressors and health access barriers through a series of focus groups with Vietnamese community members, stratified by general age groups. 2) Create initial community maps using existing data sources to characterize differences in economic, environmental, social and built environmental stressors across neighborhoods. 3) Develop and implement a community mapping survey tool for collecting neighborhood-level information to enhance baseline community maps (Aim 2). a. Develop a community mapping survey instrument to collect information on community-perceived stressors and barriers (identified from Aim 1). b. Engage Vietnamese nail salon workers in the collection of neighborhood data to describe community- perceived stressors and barriers. c. Collect air monitoring data on diesel exhaust, an air contaminant of known high community concern, to assess differences in levels across neighborhoods and evaluate existing data on this contaminant. 4) Develop enhanced community maps using existing and newly-collected data (Aim 3) to describe variations in neighborhood economic, environmental, social and built environmental stressors. Community Mapping of Environmental Hazards and Barriers in an Immigrant Population Project Narrative The proposed community mapping project is designed to address a major gap in health prevention for minority communities by bringing together researchers and members of an underserved racial/ethnic community to produce a collaboratively developed profile of neighborhood environmental hazards and barriers to health care access. Focusing on the Vietnamese immigrant population, we will conduct an equal partnership mapping project, bringing expertise in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) tools from the research partner together with the knowledge and perceptions of the community partner to characterize neighborhood work and residential environments influencing the health risks of Vietnamese immigrants. This work will build on a developmental community-based participatory research project focused on the recently high profile concerns of health risks from chemical exposures in the burgeoning nail salon industry, an industry dominated in California by Vietnamese immigrant workers.