Building Healthy Communities in Environmental Justice Areas
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004JN0X88 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 141 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Cerrell Report advocated targeting poor, uneducated communities with that did not traditionally complaint to government and were economically unable to have their "voice" heard. Dr. Building Healthy Communities in Environmental Justice Areas (BHCEJA) is a biopsychosocial model that proposes implementing social justice principles in government policy to decrease health and economic disparity. Private and government partnerships, coupled with effective solutions in government polices and programs, that address improvment of a community's economic status, can improve health disparities even in economic hard times. Regardless of whether the health and economic disparity was caused by industrialization, population redistribution or environmental racism, the BHCEJA model provides a well accepted peer reviewed biopsychosocial model to evaluate and identify the factors unique to any environmental justice com
"You can't review your own book" according to Andy Kaufman. Ms Legg. You can't review your own book and give it 5 stars. You can't review your own book by cutting and pasting an article by a news reporter. This review therefore provides a karmic counterweight to your self-review.
Some environmental justice communities have populations of unique ethnic background and religion due to their history of industrialization. Dr. Legg has spent a life time understanding underserved communities and ten years developing the peer reviewed model, Building Healthy Communities in Environmental Justice Areas. . Legg's background in public health, occupational health, environmental health, law, the natural sciences, and business makes her perspective unique in the field of health disparities and environmental justice. Dr. One of the purposes of this book is to propose an evidenced based model that can evaluate health disparities, economic disparity and environmental burden in a comparative manner, regardless of whether the disparity is in part caused by environmental racism or the result of industrialization and spatial redistribution of populations. As an illustration, the mining communities of the