South Bronx Environmental Justice Partnership

描述（由申请人提供） 南布朗克斯环境正义伙伴关系的总体目标是改善居住在南布朗克斯的人们的健康。该合作伙伴关系是一个更好的布朗克斯（FABB），雷曼学院（CUNY），蒙蒂菲奥里医疗中心（MMC）和阿尔伯特爱因斯坦医学院（AECOM）之间的持续合作。该伙伴关系成立于2000年，由NIEHS环境正义计划提供资金。Lehman College正式加入了这一计划。在本提案中，SBEJP寻求实现以下具体目标：1.加强AECOM、FABB、Lehman和Montefiore之间的伙伴关系和合作，并通过以下方式促进每个机构的环境健康教育和研究：a）在南布朗克斯扩大网站、环境健康图书馆和信息中心; B）非营利组织，501 c3地位，以及FABB的额外行政、会计和研究能力; c）协助莱曼学院的MPH计划的发展; d）加强和整合SBEJP并加强合作伙伴的相互学习;以及e）招募AECOM社区与协作健康研究所的其他社区咨询委员会成员。2.在布朗克斯进行与心血管疾病和糖尿病有关的空气污染和土地使用的地理信息系统环境卫生研究，通过与社区的持续对话了解情况，通过a）绘制心血管疾病住院与当地固定和移动的空气污染源和其他有毒土地使用的地图; B）就糖尿病住院及其与内分泌干扰物和空气污染的潜在来源的地理关系进行初步的CIS研究;和有毒的土地使用和建筑环境的缓解功能;和c）制定文化和语言上适当的风险沟通材料，社区对话这些GIS的结果。3.与南布朗克斯的其他组织合作，开发社区驱动的、促进健康的社会和建筑环境改善，方法是：a）使用GIS对布朗克斯公园进行公平分析; B）开展焦点小组、城镇会议和社区调查，以了解社区优先事项; c）开发社区优先示范项目; d）开发示范法规执行和缓解举措;以及e）制定以社区为基础、文化上适当的方法来改善营养和锻炼。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The overall goal of the South Bronx Environmental Justice Partnership (SBEJP) is to improve the health of the people who live in the South Bronx. The partnership is an on-going collaboration between For a Better Bronx (FABB), Lehman College (CUNY), Montefiore Medical Center (MMC), and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM). The Partnership was established in 2000 with funding from the NIEHS Environmental Justice program. Lehman College formally joins the Partnership with this proposal. In this proposal SBEJP seeks to accomplish the following Specific Aims: 1. Strengthen the Partnership and collaboration between AECOM, FABB, Lehman, and Montefiore and promote environmental health education and research at each, by a) expansion of websites, environmental health library, and information center in the South Bronx; b) not-for-profit incorporation, 501c3 status, and additional administrative, accounting, and research capacity for FABB; c) assistance for development of MPH program at Lehman College; d) strengthening and integrating SBEJP and enhancing Partners mutual learning; and e) recruitment of additional Community Advisory Board members of AECOM's Institute for Community & Collaborative Health. 2. Conduct Geographical Information Systems (CIS) environmental health research on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes related air pollution and land use in the Bronx, informed by on-going dialogue with its community, by a) mapping of CVD hospitalizations against local stationary and mobile sources of air pollution and other noxious land use; b) conduct preliminary CIS studies on diabetes mellitus hospitalizations and their geographic relationship with potential sources of endocrine disrupters, air pollution; and noxious land use and mitigating features of the built environment; and c) develop culturally and linguistically-appropriate risk communication materials for community dialogue about these GIS findings. 3. Develop community-driven, health-promoting improvements in the social and built environments in collaboration with other organizations in the South Bronx, by a) an equity analysis of Bronx parks using GIS; b) conduct focus groups, town meetings, and community surveys to learn community priorities; c) develop community-prioritized demonstration projects; d) develop model code enforcement and mitigation initiatives; and e) develop community-based, culturally-appropriate approaches to improved nutrition and exercise.