Use of community-owned and -managed research to assess the vulnerability of water and sewer services in marginalized and underserved environmental justice communities

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-17

  Heaney, Christopher ^a   Wilson, Sacoby ^a   Wilson, Omega ^a   Cooper, John ^a   Bumpass, Natasha ^a   Snipes, Marilyn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA SET; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFRASTRUCTURE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RESEARCH WORK; SEWER NETWORK; SURFACE WATER; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POVERTY; SANITATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; POVERTY AREAS; SANITATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051536693     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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