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Author(s): V. Boothe, W. F. Dimmick & T. O. Talbot
Abstract:
Initiated in February 2004, the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation
(PHASE) Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.
S Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), and three Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
(EPHTN) state agencies.
The objective of this project is to develop, evaluate, and
demonstrate the advantages and limitations of different methods of generating air
quality characterization data that could be systematically and routinely available
to link with public health surveillance data as part of the Environmental Public
Health Tracking Network.
Keywords:
ozone, particulate matter, asthma, myocardial infarctions, case
cross-over, exposure assessment.
1 Introduction
In September of 2000, the Pew Environmental Health Commission issued a
report that called on legislators to create a federally supported Nationwide Health
Tracking Network of local, state and federal public health agencies that tracks
trends of priority chronic diseases and relevant environmental factors in all 50
states.
According to the report, effective environmental health tracking requires a
coordinated approach that identifies hazards, evaluates exposures, and tracks the
health of the population [1].
The term “Tracking” was defined by the
Commission as synonymous with the concept of public health surveillance
which is, “the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of
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Pages: 10
Size: 517 kb
Paper DOI: 10.2495/EEH050051
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