ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE OUTREACH IN NORTHERN MANHATTAN

描述 环境正义运动阐明了这样一个事实， 颜色不成比例地和过度地暴露于化学物质， 环境中的物理危害。 虽然有令人震惊的本地化 环境不公正事件，城市人口总数， 暴露于多种危害的颜色代表了相当大的比例， 那些受到环境不公正政策和做法影响的人。 该项目的目标是向占主导地位的弱势群体提供信息， 北方曼哈顿三个城市社区的有色人种收入者 （特别是中哈莱姆、西哈莱姆和华盛顿高地） 空气中过量的颗粒物和一氧化碳， 重型汽车、公共汽车和卡车交通以及其他环境污染物 他们所接触的。 实现这一目标的拟议方法是 加强和发展社区居民之间新形成的联系， 环境卫生研究人员和卫生保健提供者， 在这些社区工作，通过：公共论坛，以确定和 优先考虑社区环境问题;保健干预措施 有针对性的环境暴露;环境健康 围绕已确定的危害，对社区居民进行领导能力培训; 环境和健康会议，交流想法和信息， 关注的环境问题。 这些努力的长期目标是 有助于干预和减少接触环境毒物， 对这些弱势群体的健康产生不利影响，医学上不应得的， 主要是北方曼哈顿的非洲裔和拉丁裔人口。 通过认真记录、评估和传播调查结果， 在此开发的模式可以推广到其他社区， 适应区域环境问题。

DESCRIPTION The Environmental Justice Movement has illuminated the fact that people of color are disproportionately and excessively exposed to chemical and physical hazards in the environment. While there are egregious localized instances of environmental injustice, in aggregate, urban populations of color exposed to a multitude of hazards represent a sizable proportion of those who are affected by environmentally unjust policies and practices. The goal of this project is to inform and empower the predominantly low income people of color in three urban communities in Northern Manhattan (specifically, Central Harlem, West Harlem, and Washington Heights) about the excess levels of airborne particulate matter and carbon monoxide from heavy car, bus, and truck traffic as well as other environmental pollutants to which they are exposed. The proposed means of accomplishing this is to strengthen and elaborate newly formed linkages between community residents, environmental health researchers, and health care providers who live and work in these neighborhoods through: public forums to identify and prioritize community environmental concerns; interventions for health care providers on targeted environmental exposures; environmental health leadership training for community residents around identified hazards; and environment and health conferences to exchange ideas and information around environmental issues of concern. The long term goal of these efforts is to help intervene and reduce exposure to environmental toxicants which are adversely affecting the health of these disadvantaged, medically undeserved, predominantly African-American and Latino populations in Northern Manhattan. Through careful documentation, evaluation, and dissemination of findings, the model to be developed here can be generalized to other communities and adapted to accommodate regional environmental concerns.