CDC Envirnomental Tracking and Disease Surveillance

公共卫生机构在监测环境污染物以及 他们潜在的健康后果。这些机构致力于减轻环境污染的影响 通过管理废物和危险材料危害公众健康；监测铅、石棉、 确保食品安全以及水和空气质量。一个关键组件，用于 这些活动是一个有效的卫生信息系统，将为公共卫生机构提供 能够收集、分析、共享有关环境危害影响的信息并对此做出反应 社区。拥有实施卫生信息系统的基础设施将使公共卫生 各机构主动发现和遏制新出现的环境健康问题。一项重要的战略 解决这些新出现的问题将是实施环境公共健康跟踪 网络(EPHTN)。该倡议产生的数据将被用来识别最有可能是 受社区环境暴露的影响。此外，这些监视举措将允许 公共卫生集体展示了对疾病总负担的更好理解 环境危害和暴露的健康数据，并确保社区有能力 对此信息做出回应。为了努力扩大公共卫生机构的资源覆盖面 东北走廊，匹兹堡大学公共卫生研究生院(宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡) 与德雷塞尔大学公共卫生学院(宾夕法尼亚州费城)合作建立地区性 环境公共卫生监测学术中心。皮特大学/德雷克塞尔大学公共卫生联盟 作为地方、州和地区卫生相关机构的学术合作伙伴，具有独特的地位 促进环境能力建设、评估现有监测方法和 制定创新战略和工具，将危害、暴露和健康影响数据库联系起来，以便 EPHTN。我们这个项目的目标是在广泛的危险暴露健康中开发和批判性评估。 影响足够全面的数据基础架构，以促进复杂的环境健康数据 链接简单明了，可供公共卫生人员通过 可访问的、基于Web的应用程序，用于环境健康跟踪和疾病监测。

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.