CORE--Community Outreach & Education

社区推广和教育核心(COEC)的目标是： ？促进中西部农村社区和其他弱势群体的环境健康， ？提供以科学和技术为基础的适当信息和 将环境健康研究成果转化为社区成员的知识。 EHSRC的COEC促进了环境健康研究的广泛传播 中心。随着该中心成熟地专注于环境呼吸道疾病，这一外展也是如此。四 特别关注的领域：哮喘、氡、畜牧业排放的空气和可再生能源 在减少化石燃料排放方面的作用。如战略远景(本申请第1章)中所述， 中西部社区，特别是弱势群体和社区组织 美国中部的地理区域配得上最新、最合适的科学和 我们寻求提供的以技术为基础的信息。然而，COEC也是一个地方、国家、 为农村环境健康提供国内和国际资源。 美国农村面临着更大的农业和农村环境危害风险 暴露，较少接触卫生保健提供者，通常会产生更多不利的健康后果 而不是生活在城市地区的美国人。农民、农场家庭成员、儿童、老年人和穷人 农村和环境疾病和伤害的风险特别大。COEC通过各种渠道 EHSRC的环境卫生能力，以满足 更广泛的社区，促进环境健康，并作为一个 协助制定环境卫生政策的技术资源。

The goals of the Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC) are to: ¿ promote environmental health in rural Midwestern communities and other vulnerable populations, ¿ deliver appropriate, science and technology-based information and ¿ translate environmental health research results into knowledge for our community members. The COEC at the EHSRC promotes widespread dissemination of environmental health research of the Center. As the Center has matured to focus on environmental airway disease, so has this outreach. Four areas are of particular focus: asthma, radon, air emissions from animal agriculture, and renewable energy's role in reducing fossil fuel emissions. As described in Strategic Vision (Chapter 1 of this application), Midwestern communities and especially vulnerable populations and community organizations in a wide geographical area of the central United States deserve the most current, appropriate, science and technology-based information which we seek to provide. However, the COEC also serves as a local, state, national and international resource for rural environmental health. Rural Americans at increased risk from a number of agricultural and rural environmental hazards and exposures, have less access to health care providers, and generally have more adverse health outcomes than Americans living in urban areas. Farmers, farm family members, children, the elderly, and the poor are at particular risk for rural and environmental diseases and injuries. The COEC channels the diverse environmental health capabilities of the EHSRC toward meeting the educational needs of the broader community, promoting environmental health, and serving America's heartland as a technical resource to assist in making environmental health policy.