G.I.S and Community-based Health Initiatives

Low income neighborhoods and communities of color have long borne a disproportionate burden of environmental problems and the health consequences that flow from them.  From lead poisoning to asthma and childhood injuries, almost every environmentally-related health problem concentrates in inner cities.  The course Environmental Health 807 has focused on documenting these problems with descriptive statistics and has stressed the need to find solutions that empower the neighborhoods most at risk.  We recognize the need to add a geographic component to the course and course projects because the environmental health issues we document are lived locally and experienced spatially.... 

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