Combining community-based research and local knowledge to confront asthma and subsistence-fishing hazards in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2002, Pages 241-248

  Corburn, Jason ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Community health; Community based participatory research; Cumulative exposure assessment; El Puente; Environmental justice; Local knowledge; Subsistence fishing; The Watchperson Project

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; ORGANIZATION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036230637     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110s2241     Document Type: Review

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