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Community health workers (CHWs) have been playing a crucial role in improving community health for over a century. Their roles have evolved to address changing community needs, and now they must also address environmental injustice to mitigate health and population damage. CHWs, who have deep ties to the communities they serve, can contribute to environmental justice work by improving environmental health outcomes and addressing the healthcare worker shortage. By involving CHWs in community-based participatory environmental health research, they can strengthen environmental health literacy and collaborate with residents to inform environmental health and justice policy. CHWs can also promote pro-environmental health behaviors and act as trusted peer listeners for community members who have experienced environmental injustices. Incorporating environmental justice into CHWs' agendas can help community members understand the impact of environmental injustice on their health and provide them with tools to cope with traumatic experiences. Additionally, increasing reliance on CHWs in environmental health and justice endeavors can help address the deepening health workforce shortage in the US. Overall, CHWs can serve as a multi-purpose solution for healthcare and environmental justice by addressing social, structural, and environmental determinants of health. [Extracted from the article]

Background The E.U.'s lack of racially disaggregated data impedes the formulation of effective interventions, and crises such as Covid-19 may continue to impact minorities more severely. Our predictive model offers insight into the disparate ways in which Covid-19 has likely impacted E.U. minorities and allows for the inference of differences in Covid-19 infection and death rates between E.U. minority and non-minority populations. Methods Data covering Covid-19, social determinants of health and minority status were included from 1 March 2020 to 28 February 2021. A systematic comparison of US and E.U. states enabled the projection of Covid-19 infection and death rates for minorities and non-minorities in E.U. states. Results The model predicted Covid-19 infection rates with 95–100% accuracy for 23 out of 28 E.U. states. Projections for Covid-19 infection and mortality rates among E.U. minority groups illustrate parallel trends to US rates. Conclusions Disparities in Covid-19 infection and death rates by minority status likely exist in patterns similar to those observed in US data. Policy Implications : Collecting data by race/ethnicity in the E.U. would help document health disparities and craft more targeted health interventions and mitigation strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors administered the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey to 1,219 college students who were attending a historically Black college located in New York City. They assessed the US-born Black students and Black students who emigrated to the United States for differences in risky sexual behaviors, risky dietary behaviors, and physical inactivity. They used bivariate and multiple regression analyses to analyze the data and observed significant differences between the US-born and non-US-born students in the behavioral domains of risky sexual behaviors (p = 0.003), risky dietary behaviors (p = 0.001), and physical inactivity (p = 0.010). They conclude that immigration is associated with health protective behavior in the domains of sexual behavior and physical activity among the Black college students attending this particular institution. However, in the domain of dietary intake, immigration status was associated with increased risk in these Black college students. (Contains 5 tables.)

Discusses implications of three recommendations concerning higher education and public health in a 1988 study, "The Future of Public Health." Recommendations address: (1) the mission of public health professionals; (2) the need for a well-informed public; and (3) the social determinants of health. Also discusses the university's role in providing public health services and leadership in its community. (DB)

Describes and evaluates the Mathematics Workshop Program (MWP), which recruits first-year students of all races but typically enrolls primarily minority students. Data clearly suggest that MWP has succeeded in promoting high levels of academic performance among African American mathematics students. (AF)