The Washington State Environmental Health Disparities Map: Development of a Community-Responsive Cumulative Impacts Assessment Tool

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• Personal Author:
  Banerjee D ; Echeverria T ; Freelander L ; Galaviz VE ; Gruen D ; Min E ; Piazza M ; Saganic E ; Schmeltz M ; Seto EYW ; Yost M
• Description:
  Communities across Washington State have expressed the need for neighborhood-level information on the cumulative impact of environmental hazards and social conditions to illuminate disparities and address environmental justice issues. Many existing mapping tools have not explicitly integrated community voice and lived experience as an integral part of their development. The goals of this project were to create a new community-academic-government partnership to collect and summarize community concerns and to develop a publicly available mapping tool that ranks relative environmental health disparities for populations across Washington State. Using a community-driven framework, we developed the Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map, a cumulative environmental health impacts assessment tool. Nineteen regularly updated environmental and population indicators were integrated into the geospatial tool that allows for comparisons of the cumulative impacts between census tracts. This interactive map provides critical information for the public, agencies, policymakers, and community-based organizations to make informed decisions. The unique community-academic-government partnership and the community-driven framework can be used as a template for other environmental and social justice mapping endeavors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Community Health Services Environmental Exposure Healthcare Disparities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Environmental Justice Community Driven Research Community Engaged Community Health Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Monitoring Geographic Information Systems Geospatial Mapping Health Disparities Information Dissemination Partnership

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• ISSN:
  1660-4601
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063861
• Citation:
  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019 Nov; 16(22):4470
• Contact Point Address:
  Esther Min, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
• Email:
  estmin@uw.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e0b36705af3bb3b1e2a0c70a7cbf4db17947545c954ff609dd758ac9d3e931eded8e922168daf0c690b0574e2b9123beff4af7e093cc805ee77080f1dae43785
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222406/cdc_222406_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.88 MB ]