2009 National Environmental Public Health Conference   10/26/2009 - 10/28/2009
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 Outside These Four Walls: Trends and Challenges in the Healthy Homes Movement
Concurrent Sessions: Concurrent Session A (Monday, October 26, 2009, 1:30 PM-3:00 PM)
Date/Time: Monday, October 26, 2009
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Athens
Description:
As the Healthy Homes movement gains traction nationwide, more communities are beginning to look at ways to address a wider range of home-based environmental hazards and enhance the health and safety of homes. This goal is coupled with an aim to reduce disparities in the availability of healthy, safe, affordable, and environmentally friendly homes and is dependent on, among other factors, the availability of timely and accurate health and housing data. This session will feature presentations related to household water hauling in the Navajo Nation and the provision of healthy as well as a discussion of major challenges and trends relative to the collection of healthy housing data.

Abstracts:
AHHS: The Relationship between Pesticides Measured from Residential Floors, Pesticide Usage, and Hou
Bedbugs: Working Towards an Innovative Collaborative Solution for an Ancient Public Health Problem
Investigation of Household Drinking Water Sources and Contaminant Exposures in the Navajo Nation
Striving to standardize the collection of health and housing data
The Challenges of Providing Safe and Affordable Housing to Refugees





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