Community research in environmental health : studies in science, advocacy, and ethics /

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Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
Description:xiii, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5776801
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Other authors / contributors:Brugge, Doug.
Hynes, H. Patricia.
ISBN:0754641767 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: science with the people
  • Housing
  • Public health and the physical environment in Boston public housing: a community based survey and action agenda
  • A case study of community-based participatory research ethics: the Healthy Public Housing Initiative
  • The Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project: implementation of a comprehensive approach to improving indoor environmental quality for low-income children with asthma
  • Open Space
  • Environmental justice across the Mystic: bridging agendas in a watershed
  • A program to improve urban neighborhood health through lead-safe yard interventions
  • 'We don't only grow vegetables, we grow values': neighborhood benefits of community gardens in Flint
  • Urban Development and Transportation
  • An environmental health survey of residents of Boston Chinatown
  • Traffic injury data, policy, and public health: lessons from Boston Chinatown
  • Airborne concentrations of PM (2.5) and diesel exhaust particles on Harlem sidewalks: a community-based pilot study
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Environmental justice and regional inequality in Southern California: implications for future research
  • Participatory research strategies in nuclear risk management for native communities
  • Social responsibility and research ethics in community driven studies of industrialized hog production
  • Lessons and Conclusion
  • Afterword
  • Index