CDC Envirnomental Tracking and Disease Surveillance

描述（由申请人提供）：公共卫生机构在监测环境污染物及其潜在健康后果方面发挥着长期作用。这些机构通过管理废物和危险材料，监测铅、石棉、氡、意外伤害，确保食品安全以及水和空气质量，努力减轻环境危害对公众健康的影响。这些活动的一个关键组成部分是一个有效的卫生信息系统，使公共卫生机构能够收集、分析、分享有关环境危害对社区的影响的信息并作出反应。拥有实施卫生信息系统的基础设施将使公共卫生机构能够积极主动地查明和遏制新出现的环境卫生问题。解决这些新问题的一项重要战略是实施环境公共卫生跟踪网络。该举措产生的数据将用于确定社区中最有可能受到环境照射影响的人群。此外，这些监测举措将使公共卫生部门能够集体展示对疾病总负担的更好理解， 健康数据对环境危害和暴露的影响，并确保社区有能力对这一信息作出反应。为了扩大东北走廊公共卫生机构的资源覆盖面，匹兹堡大学公共卫生研究生院（宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡）正在与德雷克塞尔大学公共卫生学院（宾夕法尼亚州费城）合作，建立一个环境公共卫生监测的区域学术中心。皮特/德雷克塞尔公共卫生联盟的U是独特的定位，作为学术合作伙伴，以卫生相关机构在地方，州和区域倡议，以促进环境能力建设，评估现有的监测方法，并制定创新的战略和工具，链接危害，暴露和健康影响数据库的EPHTN。我们这个项目的目标是在一个基础广泛的危险暴露健康影响数据基础设施内开发和批判性评估，该基础设施足够全面，以促进复杂的环境健康数据联系，但又足够简单，可以通过易于访问的、基于网络的环境健康跟踪和疾病监测应用程序，由公共卫生人员有效利用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Public Health agencies have shared a long-standing role in monitoring environmental pollutants as well as their potential health outcomes. These agencies have worked to mitigate the impact of environmental hazards on the public's health by managing waste and hazardous materials; monitoring lead, asbestos, radon, unintentional injury; and ensuring food safety as well as water and air quality. A key component to these activities is an effective health information system which would provide public health agencies the ability to collect, analyze, share and react to information regarding the impact of environmental hazards in the community. Having the infrastructure to implement a health information system will enable public health agencies to proactively identify and contain emerging environmental health issues. An important strategy for addressing these emerging issues will be the implementation of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN). Data resulting from the initiative will be used to identify populations most likely to be affected by environmental exposures in the community. Furthermore, these surveillance initiatives will allow public health to collectively demonstrate a better understanding of the total burden of disease by linking health data to environmental hazards and exposures and assuring that communities have the capacity to respond to this information. In an effort to broaden resource coverage for public health agencies in the northeastern corridor, The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (Pittsburgh, PA) is collaborating with the Drexel University School of Public Health (Philadelphia, PA) to build a regional academic center for environmental public health surveillance. The U of Pitt /Drexel Public Health Alliance is uniquely positioned to act as an academic partner to health-related agencies in a local, state and regional initiative to facilitate environmental capacity building, to evaluate existing surveillance methodologies and to develop innovative strategies and tools to link hazards, exposures and health effects databases for the EPHTN. Our goal for this project is to develop and critically evaluate within a broad-based hazard-exposure health effect data infrastructure that is comprehensive enough to facilitate complex environmental health data linkage yet straightforward enough to be utilized effectively by public health personnel through easily accessible, web-based applications for environmental health tracking and disease surveillance.