This application responds to RFA TW 03-005 """"""""Health, Environment and Economic Development."""""""" We will examine social and demographic processes that are closely linked to health and environmental outcomes. We will examine how urbanization influences environmental health risks, and how these in turn influence local thinking about environmental issues. To do so, we will employ an interdisciplinary research team, bringing together social scientists, field biologists, and health. We will conduct our work in coastal Ghana at a site with which we are familiar. We intend to (1) conduct focus groups and in-depth interviews with respondents located in the region, addressing questions of health behavior and demographic activity; (2) conduct exploratory drinking water quality measurements at the household and community level; (3) delineate watersheds of coastal water bodies; (4) develop a population growth and land use profile for the study area; (5) conduct preliminary analysis of the interrelationships among urbanization, lagoon water quality, fish catches and human health. This research is designed to help us frame a more ambitious interdisciplinary investigation in the near future.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Fogarty International Center (FIC)
Type
Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
Project #
1R21TW006508-01
Application #
6697988
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZES1-JAB-C (FO))
Program Officer
Rosenthal, Joshua
Project Start
2003-07-01
Project End
2005-06-30
Budget Start
2003-07-01
Budget End
2004-06-30
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$146,000
Indirect Cost
Name
Brown University
Department
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
001785542
City
Providence
State
RI
Country
United States
Zip Code
02912
White, Michael J; Hunter, Lori M (2009) Public Perception of Environmental Issues in a Developing Setting: Environmental Concern in Coastal Ghana. Soc Sci Q 9:960-982
Andrzejewski, Catherine S; Reed, Holly E; White, Michael J (2009) Does where you live influence what you know? Community effects on health knowledge in Ghana. Health Place 15:228-38
White, Michael J; Muhidin, Salut; Andrzejewski, Catherine et al. (2008) Urbanization and fertility: an event-history analysis of coastal Ghana. Demography 45:803-16
McGarvey, Stephen T; Buszin, Justin; Reed, Holly et al. (2008) Community and household determinants of water quality in coastal Ghana. J Water Health 6:339-49