Project 2: Cumulative Environmental Effects: Expanding research with Hopi Tribe

这个项目的总体目标，累积环境影响：扩大霍皮部落的研究，是 使用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）方法与霍皮部落合作 调查家庭接触情况，为决策提供信息。家庭接触是 许多美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民社区遇到的环境危害。 家庭暴露包括加热和烹饪的燃烧副产品， 采矿和其他土地使用以及水和食物污染。这些暴露，以及共同暴露， 失业和难以获得预防方案和卫生服务，影响呼吸系统健康， 儿童和成人的肥胖，并保证在一个社会范围内评估AI/AN家庭暴露 生态框架亚利桑那州北方的霍皮部落已经确定了几个值得关注的领域，包括 在家庭中燃烧煤炭和生物质取暖的影响及其对呼吸系统健康的潜在影响。 其他问题包括对饮用水和地表水中的砷和铀物质的关切。砷 暴露与肺功能受损和体重指数增加有关。本申请寻求 扩大现有的关系，将霍皮族官员纳入霍皮族环境保护办公室， 大学环境科学家和健康促进专家。该项目建议：1）描述 颗粒物（PM）、砷物质、铀和其他 在霍皮部落土地上选定的家庭中，空气、水和食物中的污染物; 2）评估暴露如何 受健康、社会资本、社区复原力和其他文化资产等社会决定因素的调节; （3）扩大霍皮人解决环境问题的能力。这项工作将建立更多的 霍皮部落内部评估和减轻部落所关切的环境危害的能力。的 拟议的联合项目提供了一个机会，发展和加强建立在信任基础上的关系， 与霍皮部落和大学研究人员合作，并提高霍皮环境保护的能力， 监察其空气及水质。预期的结果包括对累积暴露的建模， 霍皮族居民中的砷物种和颗粒，并解决 卫生不平等的问题。该项目将建立霍皮部落的能力， 暴露和制定方案，为部落的环境和健康政策提供信息，以实现可持续的未来。

The overall goal of this project, Cumulative Environmental Effects: Expanding Research with the Hopi Tribe, is to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to collaborate with the Hopi Tribe investigating household exposures to inform policy decisions. Household exposures are major sources of environmental hazards encountered by many American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Household exposures include combustion by-products from heating and cooking, particulate from nearby mining and other land uses, and water and food contamination. These exposures, and co-exposures such as unemployment and poor access to preventive programs and health services, impact respiratory health and obesity among children and adults, and warrant evaluation of AI/AN household exposures within a social ecological framework. The Hopi Tribe in northern Arizona has identified several areas of concern, including the impact of burning coal and biomass in homes for heating and its potential impact on respiratory health. Other issues include concerns about arsenic and uranium species in drinking and surface water. Arsenic exposure is linked to compromised lung function and an increase in body mass index. This application seeks to expand existing relationships to include Hopi officials in the Hopi Environmental Protection Office and university environmental scientists and health promotion experts. The project proposes to: 1) Characterize magnitude of environmental exposures to particulate matter (PM), arsenic species, uranium and other contaminants from air, water, and food in selected households on Hopi tribal lands; 2) Evaluate how exposures are moderated by social determinants of health, social capital, community resilience and other cultural assets; and 3) Expand Hopi capacity to address areas of environmental concern. The effort will build additional capacity within the Hopi Tribe to evaluate and mitigate environmental hazards of concern to the Tribe. The proposed joint project provides an opportunity to develop and strengthen a relationship built on trust between the Hopi Tribe and university researchers and to increase the capacity of the Hopi Environmental Protection Office to monitor its air and water quality. Anticipated results include modeling of cumulative exposures to arsenic species and particulate among Hopi residents and addressing environmental concerns of the Tribe in terms of health inequities. The project will build the Hopi Tribe's capacity to conduct research on adverse exposures and develop programs that inform tribal environmental and health policies for a sustainable future.