Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health

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Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in
Environmental Health

• A tool offering local health officials guidance
  in conducting a community-based environmental
  health assessment and creating an accurate
  profile of a communitys environmental health
  status

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Key Objectives of PACE EH

• Evaluate Environmental Health Conditions
• Target Populations at Risk
• Set Priorities
• Support Health Equity and Social Justice

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Benefits Across PACE EH Sites

• Fosters confidence
• Clients to Partners
• Database development
• Community ownership of EH

• Improved EH
• Leadership role
• Bridge-building
• New work skills
• New professional partnerships

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Tasks 1- 3 Prepare for the Process

• 1.) Facilitators examine potential for a CEHA
• 2.) Facilitators map the target community
• 3.) Invite key community/staff members

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Tasks 4 - 6 Locate the Issues

• 4.) Define Goals Scope of Assessment
• 5.) Generate List of Local EH Issues
• 6.) Describe the Context of the Issues

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Tasks 7 - 9 Quantify and Qualify the Issues

• 7.) Develop Local Indicators
• 8.) Select Relevant Standards
• 9.) Create Issue Profiles

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Tasks 10 - 13 Set the Stage for Action

• 10.) Rank the Issues
• 11.) Set Priorities for Action
• 12.) Develop Action Plans
• 13.) Evaluate Progress

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PACE EH The Five Primary Challenges

• Data limitations
• Lack of consensus
• Scientific view v.
• public perception
• Authority
• Indicators

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Obstacles to meeting the challenges of PACE EH

• Extensive community outreach
• Translating between perception and science
• Rearranging work methods and priorities
• Promotion of CEHA efforts

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Priority Issues at PACE EH Demonstration Sites

• 1. Air Quality
• 2. Water Quality
• 3. Solid Waste
• 4. Land Use
• 5. Housing
• 6. Zoonosis
• 7. Food Safety