Promoting Healthy Communities for Children: the Social and Physical Environments
Date: Sept. 26 - 27, 2005
Location: Continuing Education and Conference Center, St. Paul Campus
This conference will examine physical exposures (such as lead, air toxicants, allergens, PCBs, nutrition), the impact of the built environment (e.g., urban/community design, housing), social exposures (e.g., neighborhood characteristics, socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, social trust, race, gender), and the interactions between these exposures. The goals of the conference are to: 1. identify new research findings that profile both threats and protective factors in the physical and social environments that affects children's health; 2. address ways to translate scientific evidence into action to protect and promote children's health; 3. identify research gaps and potential intervention, research, and policy collaborations to fill them; 4. discuss ways to better communicate risk and protective mechanisms through strengthened media relations; 5. close the gap between environmental exposures and population help.
Sponsor: School of Public Health
Contacts: Joan Patterson or Wendy Hellerstedt, Associate Professors, School of Public Health: (612) 624-1818.
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