Urban Air Quality and Respiratory Health Joint Initiative
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Content and slides created to describe a joint initiative between the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Health to address the adverse health outcomes related to air pollution. Audience was staff, supervisors, managers and assistant commissioners.
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Urban Air Quality and Respiratory Health Joint Initiative
- 1. Urban Air Quality and Respiratory Health Joint Initiative: Riding towards good outcomes MPCA Air Quality Forum Chris Pulley Air Quality/Health Coordinator March 27, 2014
- 2. Bike Story 2
- 3. Why Are We Riding? 2013 Legislature MPCA and MDH Mission Air quality affects health, but how? One of many factors Steer us to… Community engagement 3
- 4. Who’s Riding? MPCA Staff Air Assessment Section EJ Coordinator MDH Staff Environmental Surveillance and Assessment Section Chronic Disease & Environmental Epidemiology Section 4
- 5. What Tools Are We Using On Our Ride? Technical Report – due October 2014 Community Toolkit – due October 2014 Health Impact Assessment – due June 2015 Final Report to Legislature – due June 2015 5
- 6. Technical Report – Twin Cities Air Pollution and Health Report Based on NYC Report - Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine Particles and Ozone Zip-code level data in 7-county metro area • Air quality data – MPCA • Health incidence data – asthma, COPD, cardiovascular (MDH) BenMAP – health impacts from different scenarios Results – health impacts, demographic data 6
- 7. Community Toolkit Audience: community stakeholders State, local and nonprofit resources Disease management and impact reduction Air quality, asthma, COPD, smoking cessation, environmental tobacco smoke 7
- 8. Health Impact Assessment Inform decision-makers about the effects of any policy, program or project on the health of people Environmental - one of many factors Nexus – community engagement 8
- 9. When We Will Arrive? Final report due to Legislature – June 2015 Appropriate and effective agency roles for MPCA and MDH Recommendations for high leverage issues/strategies 9
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- Source: Microsoft Clipart Before I talk about this joint initiative, I want to share a personal story that’s related. On December 18, 2009, I biked to campus in the late afternoon along the Hiawatha LRT bike path to submit a grad paper. Biking home, I started wheezing. I later found out that I biked during an air quality alert day (the AQI was 124, unhealthy for sensitive groups). http://www.pca.state.mn.us/index.php/view-document.html?gid=13322 This story relates to this joint initiative. Perhaps the poor air quality that day may have exacerbated my reactive airway disease. But were my lung issues also due my prolonged exposure to second hand smoke when I lived at home, or my college years of biking around the cities and near traffic? At the time, I did not know that biking on air quality alert days could affect respiratory health. It’s likely all of these contributed in some way, but it’s a curious question that rode me, in part, to this position. These are the kinds of questions, in terms of what affects their respiratory health, that communities may have.
- Why are we riding? The 2013 legislature provided funding for this two year initiative, and was the joint request of MPCA and MDH. This initiative ties the missions of both agencies in working together to protect and improve our environment and enhance human health, It’s also part of the MDH mission, which is protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans. We’re also riding because health data are saying air quality affects health, but how? People with chronic respiratory diseases (which include asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are vulnerable to exacerbations due to air pollution. These diseases are complex and have many factors, of which outdoor air quality is just one. But it is one the public views as an important contributor, so this initiative will steer us to exploring the data, which may reveal strategies that could help both agencies improve community engagement around these issues.
- Who’s riding? Air Assessment Section – Mary Jean Fenkse, Frank Kohlasch, myself, David Bael, Kristie Ellickson, Greg Pratt, Mary Williams, Dorian Kvale; EJ Coordinator – Ned Brooks MDH Environmental Surveillance and Assessment Section – Dan Symonik, Kristin Raab, Linden Weiswerda MDH Chronic Disease & Environmental Epidemiology – Jean Johnson, Chuck Stroebel, Wendy Brunner (asthma staff) Steering team, comprised of supervisors/managers and other staff from both agencies meet monthly to provide direction to the core team, who work on the deliverables of this initiative that I’ll later describe.
- These are our Deliverables and target completion dates. I’ll talk about each of these in the next slides.
- Technical Report Based on the NYC Report – Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers Zip code level data BenMAP - Scenarios: policy-relevant background, 10% improvement, lowest concentration among large US cities. Base on Clean Air MN Dialogues’ air quality improvement targets. Results: PM 2.5 and Ozone health impacts, pollution exposure and pollution impacts correlate with SES factors?
- Community Toolkit Audience: community stakeholders Resources: State, local and nonprofit efforts related to disease management and impact reduction around air quality, asthma, COPD, smoking cessation, environmental tobacco smoke)
- Health Impact Assessment Process used by organizations and community groups to provide decision-makers with information about how any policy, program or project may affect the health of people. Considers many factors including environmental) MDH is working with Nexus Community Partners to provide HIA assistance through a sole-source contract. Re-grantor, rather than RFP, to communities in E. St. Paul, North Minneapolis or South Minneapolis.
- When we will arrive? Destination is the Legislature: We’re riding from the land of misperception, towards better data interpretation, so there’s a broad horizon vs. tunnel vision view of the data, in order to identify an appropriate and effective agency role in working to reduce the respiratory health burden in the high-density urban areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul where outdoor air quality is a concern. Final report may include the technical report, recommendations for high leverage issues/strategies, community toolkit, summary of the HIA, and possible communication products (fact sheets, summaries, etc.) Source: http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/PTGPOD/297940e-FB~Silhouette-of-Cyclist-Holding-Bike-Over-His-Head-Posters.jpg