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November 2009, Vol 99, No. S3 | American Journal of Public Health S499-S504
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.148916

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Health, Traffic, and Environmental Justice: Collaborative Research and Community Action in San Francisco, California

Megan Wier, MPH, Charlie Sciammas, Edmund Seto, PhD, Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH and Tom Rivard, MS, REHS

Megan Wier, Rajiv Bhatia, and Tom Rivard are with the Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA. Charlie Sciammas is with PODER, San Francisco, CA. Edmund Seto is with the department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Megan Wier, MPH, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Program on Health, Equity, and Sustainability, 1390 Market St, Suite 910, San Francisco, CA 94102 (e-mail: megan.wier{at}sfdph.org). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Health impacts on neighborhood residents from transportation systems can be an environmental justice issue. To assess the effects of transportation planning decisions, including the construction of an intraurban freeway, on residents of the Excelsior neighborhood in southeast San Francisco, PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights), a local grassroots environmental justice organization; the San Francisco Department of Public Health; and the University of California, Berkeley, collaborated on participatory research. We used our findings regarding traffic-related exposures and health hazards in the area to facilitate community education and action to address transportation-related health burdens on neighborhood residents.






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