Community First Communication: Reversing Information Disparities to Achieve Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice: Partnerships for Communication

Environmental justice (EJ) refers to the need to remedy the disproportionate residential and occupational exposures borne by socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. The main objective of the EJ program is to establish methods for linking members of a community who are directly affected by adverse environmental conditions with researchers and health care providers, and to enable this partne...

Information and Communication Technology to Link Criminal Justice Reentrants to HIV Care in the Community

The United States has the world's highest prison population, and an estimated one in seven HIV-positive persons in the USA passes through a correctional facility annually. Given this, it is critical to develop innovative and effective approaches to support HIV treatment and retention in care among HIV-positive individuals involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system. Information and communicati...

Information, power and environmental justice in Botany: the role of community information systems.

In the environmental conflict that surrounds the sighting of hazardous waste facilities there is usually a volatile mix of disparities in power, expertise and information access as well as differing views on risk, which are all played out amidst commercial arrangements and environmental justice concerns. In recent times, the volatility of this mix has been further compounded by the growing clim...

Volunteered geographic information, urban forests, & environmental justice

Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice

Background: To determine whether estradiol-to-progesterone (E2/P) ratios at the time of embryo transfer (ET) have an effect on implantation and pregnancy in IVF cycles. Methods: 239 women consecutively treated by IVF or ICSI were retrospectively analyzed and early luteal serum E2 and P were measured on the day of ET. Transfer occurred after a variable in vitro culture period ranging from 4–7 da...