Martin Lisa J, Hill Vincent, Maples Curtis, Baker Theresa, Elshaer Shereen, Butsch Kovacic Melinda
Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
University of Cincinnati.
J Particip Res Methods. 2022;3(3-themed Special Issue). doi: 10.35844/001c.38475. Epub 2022 Oct 24.
Environmental factors can lead to disease and health disparities when the places where people live, learn, work, play and pray are burdened by social inequities. Non-formal programs that explicitly connect local environmental exposures and human health could be of great value to communities at greatest risk. The purpose of this work was to co-create relevant and engaging education with youth and community stakeholders of all ages that more explicitly emphasizes the link between the local environment and community members' health through a hands-on community science experience. Our experiences helped strengthen our community-academic partnership and establish a route to create and tailor informal programming to meet local needs engage people in community science with academic partners. We generated two distinctly different community science neighborhood audit tools designed to differently engage our community partners and inform community participants of their local environments and its role on their health. Through community meetings, we garnered critical insight from our stakeholders. While neither of the tools and accompanying data collected were deemed to be scientifically generalizable, our ongoing and future work has benefited from important lessons learned from their creation and sharing.
当人们生活、学习、工作、娱乐和祈祷的场所背负着社会不公时，环境因素会导致疾病和健康差距。明确将当地环境暴露与人类健康联系起来的非正规项目，对于面临最大风险的社区可能具有巨大价值。这项工作的目的是与各年龄段的青年和社区利益相关者共同创造相关且引人入胜的教育内容，通过实践社区科学体验更明确地强调当地环境与社区成员健康之间的联系。我们的经验有助于加强我们的社区 - 学术伙伴关系，并建立一条途径来创建和定制非正规项目以满足当地需求，让人们与学术伙伴一起参与社区科学。我们生成了两种截然不同的社区科学邻里审计工具，旨在以不同方式吸引我们的社区伙伴，并让社区参与者了解他们当地的环境及其对健康的作用。通过社区会议，我们从利益相关者那里获得了关键见解。虽然所收集的工具及相关数据都不被认为具有科学上的普遍性，但我们正在进行的和未来的工作从它们的创建和分享中学到的重要经验中受益。
