EPA environmental justice (EJ) officials are looking to a variety of screening tools to measure and compare the data collected among EJ communities, highlighting the contribution that a new tool from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) serves in helping identify the cumulative impacts...
EPA's Michael Goo, associate administrator for the Office of Policy, July 24 gave one of the first public presentations detailing the features of the tool, known as EJ Screen, to the agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC).Dawn Reeves...
EJSCREENis a mapping and screening tool based on environmental and demographic data. EPA created this tool to support participatory scientists in identifying and researching environmental justice concerns in their communities. EnviroAtlasis an interactive web tool that features datasets on everything from ...
From an infrastructure perspective, the EJA provided the groundwork and taught EJ advocates how to address injustices in their community with specific skills such as community mapping with the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN) [18] and Community-Focused Exposure and Risk ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that...
To extract information related to a certain topic, the extraction tool needs to be capable of accomplishing two tasks: (1) Named Entity Recognition (NER): to recognize biomedical named entities (NEs) (e.g. afp, alb, mRNA and HCC); and (2) Named Entity Relation Recognition (NERR): to ...
to clarify key provisions of its environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool, known as EJSCREEN, including seeking guidance on how to identify "fenceline" communities and define "cumulative impacts," just as the agency's Science Advisory Board (SAB) prepares to complete its review of the tool. In...
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In conclusion, the CDEPA questionnaire is a valid, reliable, and useful instrument for easily screening APD. A Spanish questionnaire for advanced Parkinson's disease, CDEPA, is a reliable tool for identifying patients with late-stage PD. Patients with advanced PD have severe motor and non-motor...
The electronic Psoriasis and Arthritis Screening Questionnaire (ePASQ): a sensitive and specific tool to diagnose psoriatic arthritis patients. J Cutan Med Surg. 2011;15:143e149.Khraishi M, Mong J, Mugford G, Landells I. The electronic Psoriasis and Arthritis Screening Questionnaire (ePASQ): a...