Public Health
Global Neonatal & Children's Health
Epidemiology & Health Services Pathway
Environmental Health
Community Pediatrics
Clinical Bioethics
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
General Pediatrics
Cross-Disciplinary Pathway
Clinical Research Pathway
Advocacy Pathway
Norma Kreilein, MD
Community Pediatrician
Carle Richland Memorial Hospital
Carle Health
Jasper, Indiana, United States
Environmental health disparities are well described within rural and minority communities, particularly regarding infant mortality. The US continues to lag behind developed countries, despite committing massive resources. Why isn't US health care improving infant mortality? Are personal habits to blame, or are we missing something? Are regulations achieving results in the most vulnerable communities? If not, why not? Why are rural areas continuing to welcome dysfunctional policies while communities of color are unable to control their own exposure?
Dr. Norma Kreilein has been involved in regional and national environmental advocacy for over a decade while practicing community pediatrics in a rural setting for 30 years. Her presentation will highlight examples of 1) flawed data collection and official conclusions lacking sampling/statistical validity, 2) deliberate inadequate monitoring of clustered industrial polluters, and 3) conflicts of interest and bureaucratic processes which obstruct and obscure the environmental component to infant mortality and other measures of public health.
Knowledge of how and and to what extent environmental regulations are circumvented is critical to directing research, advocacy, and clinical practice toward closing existing loopholes and benefitting disproportionalely burdened communities. This presentation seeks to make clinicians and research faculty "environmentally aware" in addition to being "trauma aware."
Presenter: Norma Kreilein, MD – Carle Health
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