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Connecting the dots : National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.
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- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (U.S.).
- Environmental health--United States.
- Environmental health.
- Environmental monitoring--United States.
- Environmental monitoring.
- Public health surveillance--United States.
- Public health surveillance.
- Chronic diseases.
- Environmental Pollutants--adverse effects.
- Environmental Monitoring.
- Chronic Disease.
- Population Surveillance.
- Organizational Case Studies.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (U.S.).
- Environmental Pollutants--adverse effects.
- Environmental Monitoring.
- Chronic Disease.
- Population Surveillance.
- Organizational Case Studies.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [2007?]
- Summary:
- In 2000, the Pew Environmental Health Commission detailed an "environmental health gap," a lack of basic information needed to document links between environmental hazards and chronic disease. The most common environmental health hazards are air and water pollution; asthma, cancer, and lead poisoning are the most frequent adverse health effects that concern Americans. Without a tracking program, environmental causes of chronic diseases are hard to identify. Systematically measuring amounts of hazardous substances in our environment, tracing their geographic spread, seeing how they show up in human tissues, and understanding how they may cause illness would seem a wise precaution. The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is the start of that system.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF title page (CDC, viewed Aug. 4, 2010).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Connecting the dots.
- OCLC:
- 695526365
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