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(SBEJP)的总体目标是改善南布朗克斯居民的健康。这一合作伙伴关系是For a Better Bronx(FABB)、雷曼学院(CUNY)、蒙特菲奥里医学中心(MMC)和阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院(AECOM)之间持续不断的合作。该伙伴关系成立于2000年，资金来自NIEHS环境正义计划。雷曼学院正式加入了该伙伴关系，提出了这一提议。在这项建议中，SBEJP力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，促进各自的环境健康教育和研究，方法是a)扩大网站、环境健康图书馆和南布朗克斯的信息中心；b)非营利性注册、501c3地位，并为FABB增加行政、会计和研究能力；c)协助雷曼学院公共卫生项目的发展；d)加强和整合SBEJP并促进合作伙伴的相互学习；以及e)在AECOM的社区和协作健康研究所招募更多的社区咨询委员会成员。2.利用地理信息系统(CIS)对布朗克斯区心血管疾病(CVD)和糖尿病相关的空气污染和土地使用进行地理信息系统(CIS)环境健康研究，通过与社区的持续对话，a)绘制心血管疾病住院与当地固定和流动空气污染源和其他有害土地使用的对比图；b)对糖尿病住院及其与潜在内分泌干扰源、空气污染的地理关系进行初步研究；以及(C)开发文化和语言上适当的风险宣传材料，供社区就这些地理信息系统研究结果进行对话。3.与南布朗克斯的其他组织合作，通过a)利用地理信息系统对布朗克斯公园进行公平分析；b)开展重点小组、城镇会议和社区调查，以了解社区的优先事项；c)制定社区优先的示范项目；d)制定示范守则执行和缓解措施；e)制定基于社区的、符合文化的方法，以改善营养和锻炼。

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.