REDUCING PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN MINORITY FAMILIES

描述（取自申请人的摘要） 这是一个以社区为基础的参与性研究的竞争性延续 关注农民工农药污染的项目 社区. 俄勒冈州健康科学大学研究中心 职业和环境毒理学与俄勒冈州儿童发展 联盟建议扩展参与式研究模式， 发展，以提高社区的能力，并建立知识的性质， 以及儿童接触农药的程度及其对健康的影响。 该项目包括学术界代表的参与， 机构、儿童和家庭教育、卫生和社会服务，以及 农业社区。 调查人员建议延长他们的项目 在俄勒冈州之外进行研究，以实现以下具体目标 目的：1）建立并验证有机磷农药的代谢途径模型 居住在果树园附近的儿童的接触。 2)进行 农药残留分析纵向调查，工作实践，家庭 流动人口家庭暴露的特征和生物学标志 一年中居住在多个家庭和社区。 3)评价 讲西班牙语的拉丁裔儿童的特定神经行为结果， 土著语言，生活在有测量农药残留物的家中， 生活在农药残留量极少的家庭中的儿童。 四、 评估包括健康在内的公认干预方法的有效性 教育和环境暴露减少改变行为和 减少移民农业社区的农药接触。 的 项目还包括加强和扩大伙伴关系的机制 在移民农场工人社区中， 社区解决环境暴露和健康问题。 培训 为拉丁美洲农场工人社区的青年提供了机会， 受影响社区的环境问题。 除了测量 我们在改变农药暴露方面的研究干预成果， 结果健康的影响，他们已纳入一个全面的评估 计划，包括采取措施，以文件形式证明联合国系统研究能力的提高 社区，通过获得更多资金来进一步努力， 可持续性，文化上适当的工具，政策或系统的变化，以及 对现场的影响。

DESCRIPTION (Taken from Applicant's Abstract) This is a competing continuation of a community-based participatory research program focusing on pesticide contamination in migrant farm worker communities. Oregon Health Sciences University Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology and the Oregon Child Development Coalition propose to extend the participatory research model that has been developed to increase community capacity and to build knowledge on the nature and extent of childhood exposures to pesticide and resulting health effects. The project includes involvement from representatives of academic institutions, child and family educational, health, and social services, and the agricultural community. The investigators propose to extend their program of research beyond the state of Oregon to accomplish the following specific aims: 1) Develop and validate a pathway model of organophosphate pesticide exposure for children residing near tree fruit orchards. 2) Conduct a longitudinal investigation of pesticide residue analysis, work practices, home characteristics and biological markers of exposure in migrant families residing in multiple homes and communities throughout a year. 3) Evaluate specific neurobehavioral outcomes in Latino children who speak Spanish and indigenous languages, living in homes with measured pesticide residues and in children living in homes with minimal measurable pesticide residues. 4) Assess the effectiveness of accepted methods of intervention including health education and environmental exposure reduction on changing behavior and reducing pesticide exposure in the migrant agricultural community. The project also includes mechanisms to strengthen and expand the partnerships among migrant farm worker communities to increase the capacity of the community to address issues of environmental exposures and health. Training opportunities are provided for youth from the Latino farm worker community in environmental issues in affected communities. In addition to measuring the outcome of our research interventions in modifying exposures to pesticides and resulting health effects they have incorporated a comprehensive evaluation plan including measures to document increased research capacity in the community, leveraging by obtaining additional funding for further efforts, sustainability, culturally appropriate tools, policy or systems change, and impact on the field.