Integrating Information Resources to Promote Environmental Health Literacy in Appalachian Kentucky

整合信息资源以提高阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州的环境健康素养

• 批准号: 9811734
• 负责人: Anna Goodman Hoover
• 金额: $ 14.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-09 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9811734
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affect; Age; Agriculture; Appalachian Region; Associate Degree; Chronic; Communities; Community Actions; Decision Making; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Ecology; Educational Status; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Face; Goals; Government; Health; Health Resources; Health Sciences; Human; Hypertension; Imagery; Incidence; Individual; Industry; Information Resources; Infrastructure; Interdisciplinary Study; Kentucky; Link; Maps; Methods; Mining; Morbidity - disease rate; Needs Assessment; Nonprofit Organizations; Obesity; Occupational; Occupational Exposure; Personal Satisfaction; Population; Populations at Risk; Preventive; Refuse Disposal; Research; Resources; Risk; Social Sciences; Time; community organizations; evidence base; experience; falls; health disparity; health literacy; high school; improved; model development; mortality; multidisciplinary; population health; prevent; socioeconomics; tool

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Health disparities in Appalachian Kentucky have been well-documented, with many chronic health conditions disproportionately experienced across the region linked to environmental contributors. Deteriorating infrastructure, inappropriate waste disposal, and risks related to mining, agriculture, and other occupational activities underscore the need for this at-risk population to receive clear, timely, and accessible information about potential environmental health threats to support important decisions about preventive and protective actions. Unfortunately, creating easily understandable resources and tools can prove especially challenging in a region where educational attainment falls well below national averages, with nearly one-quarter of adults over age 25 lacking high school diplomas and only about one-fifth holding an associate's degree or higher. Therefore, improving environmental health literacy (EHL) in the region is critical. EHL uses information and methods from health, social, and environmental sciences to promote understanding of the relationship between environmental exposures and human health. Such understanding can spur individual and/or community actions to minimize unnecessary exposures and mitigate illness related to unavoidable exposures. To this end, it is critical that existing information resources be evaluated, integrated, improved, and made more accessible to help improve EHL and inform environmental health decisions. To address these needs, our multidisciplinary team will deploy stakeholder-engaged research strategies to achieve the following Specific Aims: 1) evaluate existing environmental health-related risk maps currently available from academic, government, and non-profit organizations to determine resource accessibility, navigability, understandability, and perceived utility for Appalachian Kentuckians; 2) conduct needs assessments to identify additional information and appropriate framing required to improve understandability and utility of environmental health-related risk maps for Appalachian Kentuckians; 3) use information gathered in Aims 1 and 2 to enhance maps through the inclusion of critical health-related information in accessible formats, as well as through potential changes to the visualizations themselves to improve understandability; and 4) leverage stakeholder- partnerships developed through the study to disseminate revised maps and additional environmental health resources through community organizations, thereby promoting EHL across the region.

项目概要/摘要 阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州的健康差异已得到充分记录，许多慢性健康问题 该地区所经历的状况与环境因素有关。 基础设施恶化、废物处理不当以及与采矿、农业、 和其他职业活动强调了这一高危人群需要接受明确的、 有关潜在环境健康威胁的及时且可获取的信息，以支持 有关预防和保护行动的重要决定。不幸的是，创建很容易 可以理解的资源和工具在一个地区尤其具有挑战性 受教育程度远低于全国平均水平，近四分之一的成年人超过 25 岁，没有高中文凭，只有约五分之一持有副学士学位或 更高。因此，提高该地区的环境健康素养（EHL）至关重要。 EHL用途 来自健康、社会和环境科学的信息和方法，以促进 了解环境暴露与人类健康之间的关系。这样的 理解可以激励个人和/或社区采取行动，以尽量减少不必要的接触 并减轻与不可避免的接触相关的疾病。为此，现有的 信息资源得到评估、整合、改进，并使其更容易获得帮助 改善 EHL 并为环境健康决策提供信息。为了满足这些需求，我们的 多学科团队将部署利益相关者参与的研究策略，以实现 具体目标如下： 1）评估当前现有的环境健康相关风险图 可从学术界、政府和非营利组织获得以确定资源 阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州的可达性、适航性、可理解性和感知效用； 2） 进行需求评估，以确定所需的额外信息和适当的框架 提高阿巴拉契亚环境健康相关风险地图的理解性和实用性 肯塔基州人； 3) 使用目标 1 和 2 中收集的信息通过纳入来增强地图 以可访问的格式以及通过潜在的变化提供与健康相关的重要信息 可视化本身以提高可理解性； 4) 影响利益相关者- 通过研究建立了伙伴关系，以传播修订后的地图和其他地图 通过社区组织提供环境卫生资源，从而在整个地区推广 EHL 该地区。