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Funding Program:
IPM Partnership Grants |
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Project Title:
Publicizing Projects that Promote IPM and Reduce Asthma Triggers in Urban Populations in the Northeast |
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Lead State: PA Lead Organization: Pennsylvania State University |
| Undesignated Funding: $8,000 |
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Start Date: Jul-01-2008 End Date: Sep-30-2008 |
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Pests Involved: rats, rodents, mice, cockroaches, bedbugs, bed bugs |
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Site/Commodity: urban, community, residential, structural |
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Summary:
Urban populations include a large number of individuals at risk of chronic pest infestations as well as over and misuse of pesticides. At-risk populations include low-income children, pregnant women and the elderly as well as asthmatics of all ages. Besides potentially acute and chronic effects, both pests and pesticides can trigger asthma, which in urban areas is at epidemic proportions. Asthma, caused and/or exacerbated by pests and pesticides, is rampant in children living in substandard housing.
In the United States, rates of childhood asthma soared 50% between 1980 and 2000, with particularly high rates in poor, urban communities. Cities across the Northeast are beginning to address these problems via coordinated mechanisms to reach these diverse populations with messages of safer, more effective pest control practices (IPM), proper pesticide choices, uses, storage and disposal. However, many people are unaware that these programs exist in urban areas. Community organizations, cooperative extension and other state IPM programs may be unaware of urban IPM projects in other cities in the Northeast and of the collaborative opportunities that may exist. We propose developing a comprehensive communications strategy to reach a diverse audience including urban residents, community organizations, state IPM programs, cooperative extension and others in Northeastern cities in which the Northeastern IPM Center is funding urban IPM projects. Objectives: The goal of this project is to publicize and promote NE IPM Center funded projects that reduce risks of pesticide exposures and asthma triggers to at-risk populations such as children, asthmatics, pregnant women and the elderly as well as the general population in urban areas in the Northeast, specifically Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Proposal |
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