Leona F. Davis|Mónica D. Ramírez?Andreotta|Jean E. McLain|Aminata Kilungo|Leif Abrell|S. Buxner
Increasing Environmental Health Literacy through Contextual Learning in Communities at Risk
University of Arizona|University of Arizona|University of Arizona|University of Arizona|University of Arizona|University of Arizona
environmental health literacy ehl recently defined continuum environmental health knowledge awareness skills selfefficacy community action study interdisciplinary team university scientists partnering local organizations developed facilitated ehl trainings special focus rainwater harvesting water contamination four communities known environmental health stressors arizona usa participatory trainings incorporated participants prior environmental health risk knowledge personal experiences cocreate training content mixed methods evaluation conducted via prepost participant surveys four trainings n 53 participants demonstrate baseline environmental science knowledge pretraining demonstrated significant knowledge increase posttraining participants demonstrated low selfefficacy se pretraining demonstrated significant increase se posttraining participants overall demonstrated significant increase specific environmental health skills described posttraining interdisciplinary facilitatorscientist team also reported multiple benefits including learning local knowledge informed research building trust relationships community members future collaboration propose contextual ehl education valuable strategy increasing ehl environmental health risk communities building academiacommunity partnerships environmental health research action