CDC Envirnomental Tracking and Disease Surveillance

CDC 环境追踪和疾病监测

• 批准号: 7273643
• 负责人: Evelyn O. Talbott
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2010-09-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7273643
• 关键词: CDC; Envirnomental; Tracking; Disease; Surveillance

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-exposureheath 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.

公共卫生机构在监测环境污染物方面也长期发挥着作用