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- Title
Designing an environmental justice mini case study (table-top) exercise for an interdisciplinary audience.
- Authors
Holtzclaw, Brian L.; Smarr, Melissa M.
- Abstract
Environmental justice calls for the fair protection from environmental hazards for all people and meaningful involvement in the decision-making process for environmental laws, regulations, and policies ensuring healthy environments in which to live, learn, and work. As such, the achievement of environmental justice tenets is essential toward improving the maternal and child health of disadvantaged populations. For the 15th Annual Break the Cycle of Children's Environmental Health Disparities conference, which was held on April 20-21, 2020, an interactive exercise was designed and conducted to further environmental justice concepts to the university and college students and their mentors in the audience. A dedicated two-hour realistic fiction exercise allowed for the students to examine how exposure to adverse environmental factors and social factors can negatively impact children's health disproportionately, and to develop solutions to breaking a cycle of health disparities at a local level. The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the usefulness of a tabletop exercise as an approach to reach a varied audience in community-engaged environmental justice education. The rationale for and major benefits of, using this approach, with lessons learned, and recommendations generated, for how to successfully design and implement such exercises, is discussed.
- Subjects
CONSERVATION of natural resources; HEALTH services accessibility; PRESS; MASS media; STAKEHOLDER analysis; HEALTH status indicators; INCOME; VOLATIZATION; EXERCISE; HEALTH care teams; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; OCCUPATIONAL hazards; INDEPENDENT living; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure; FEDERAL government
- Publication
International Public Health Journal, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 4, p503
- ISSN
1947-4989
- Publication type
Article