TY - JOUR
T1 - Interdisciplinary planning for healthier communities
T2 - Findings from the harlem children's zone asthma initiative
AU - Spielman, Seth E.
AU - Golembeski, Cynthia A.
AU - Northridge, Mary E.
AU - Vaughan, Roger D.
AU - Swaner, Rachel
AU - Jean-Louis, Betina
AU - Shoemaker, Katherine
AU - Klihr-Beall, Sandra
AU - Polley, Eric
AU - Cushman, Linda F.
AU - Ortiz, Bejamin
AU - Hutchinson, Vincent E.
AU - Nicholas, Stephen W.
AU - Marx, Terry
AU - Hayes, Roger
AU - Goodman, Andrew
AU - Sclar, Elliott D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial and ongoing program support for the Harlem Children’s Zone Asthma Initiative is provided by the Robin Hood Foundation (grant RHF CU), the Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (grant R ES-), the American Legacy Foundation (grant ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Harlem Health Promotion Center (grant U/CCU-), and the Kellogg Scholars in Health Disparities Program.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Health disparities that affect whole communities may involve factors like housing quality that lie at least partly within planners' realm of policy influence. This article demonstrates a link between housing and childhood asthma. The magnitude of the childhood asthma epidemic in Harlem in New York City and the commitment of engaged community partners led to an interdisciplinary, participatory, and multifaceted approach to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative. Here we present the first year's data on environmental triggers in the homes of program participants, showing that intensive, community-based programs can reduce both home environmental triggers and adverse childhood asthma outcomes. This provides an example of a community-wide public health intervention that informs public policy and planning, and may provide a sustainable model for reducing childhood asthma in impoverished communities.
AB - Health disparities that affect whole communities may involve factors like housing quality that lie at least partly within planners' realm of policy influence. This article demonstrates a link between housing and childhood asthma. The magnitude of the childhood asthma epidemic in Harlem in New York City and the commitment of engaged community partners led to an interdisciplinary, participatory, and multifaceted approach to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative. Here we present the first year's data on environmental triggers in the homes of program participants, showing that intensive, community-based programs can reduce both home environmental triggers and adverse childhood asthma outcomes. This provides an example of a community-wide public health intervention that informs public policy and planning, and may provide a sustainable model for reducing childhood asthma in impoverished communities.
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U2 - 10.1080/01944360608976727
DO - 10.1080/01944360608976727
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645801210
SN - 0194-4363
VL - 72
SP - 100
EP - 108
JO - Journal of the American Planning Association
JF - Journal of the American Planning Association
IS - 1
ER -