Open AccessPotential Strategies to Eliminate Built Environment Disparities for Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Communities
Author(s) -
Daniel J. Hutch,
Karen Bouye,
Elizabeth Skillen,
Charles Lee,
LaToria Whitehead,
Jamila R. Rashid
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2009.173872
Subject(s) - workgroup , health equity , disadvantaged , built environment , environmental health , business , public health , political science , public relations , environmental planning , medicine , geography , engineering , computer science , nursing , computer network , civil engineering , law
In 2006, the Federal Collaboration on Health Disparities Research (FCHDR) identified the built environment as a priority for eliminating health disparities, and charged the Built Environment Workgroup with identifying ways to eliminate health disparities and improve health outcomes. Despite extensive research and the development of a new conceptual health factors framework, gaps in knowledge exist in areas such as disproportionate environmental and community hazards, individual and cumulative risks, and other factors. The FCHDR provides the structure and opportunity to mobilize and partner with built environment stakeholders, federal partners, and interest groups to develop tools, practices, and policies for translating and disseminating the best available science to reduce health disparities.