Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Procedure: Community-level intervention & policy change

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00042484

10688-CP-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health is a part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA), which, in turn is a part of the Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health. It is a community-based intervention research partnership between the University of Michigan, community-based organizations, and health care institutions in Detroit.

Full description

The aims of the Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health are to:

• share with community groups and organizations the findings from data collected through household and air quality research of the CAAA project;
• identify and engage existing community groups and organizations interested in working on environmental issues important to their neighborhood and community in the hopes of creating an interorganizational network (I.N.);
• work with member group of the I.N. to organize, coordinate and conduct activities to reduce physical environmental threats related to asthma; and
• increase community awareness and knowledge of factors associated with the environment and asthma through sharing of findings to community residents through presentations, annual reports, postings of websites, and community forums

Sex

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria