CDC Envirnomental Tracking and Disease Surveillance

公共卫生机构在监测环境污染物方面发挥着长期作用， 潜在的健康后果。这些机构致力于减轻环境影响， 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。的关键组成部分 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 收集、分析、分享和应对环境危害影响信息的能力， 社会各界拥有实施卫生信息系统的基础设施将使公共卫生 各机构积极主动地查明和控制新出现的环境卫生问题。的重要战略 解决这些新出现的问题将是实施环境公共卫生跟踪 网络（EPHTN）。该倡议产生的数据将用于确定最有可能被 受到社区环境暴露的影响。此外，这些监测举措将使 公共卫生部门共同展示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 回应这个信息。为了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）是 与德雷克塞尔大学公共卫生学院（宾夕法尼亚州费城）合作， 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（U of Pitt /Drexel Public Health Alliance） 独特的定位，作为学术合作伙伴，以健康相关的机构在地方，州和区域 促进环境能力建设的倡议，评估现有的监测方法， 制定创新战略和工具，将危害、接触和健康影响数据库联系起来， EPHTN。我们这个项目的目标是在一个基础广泛的危险环境中开发和批判性地评估 影响数据基础设施，该基础设施足够全面，以促进复杂的环境健康数据 联系，但足够简单，公共卫生人员可以通过简单的 可访问的、基于网络的环境健康跟踪和疾病监测应用程序。

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.