Environmental Health Indicators Bridging the Chasm of Public Health and the Environment: Workshop Summary (2004) / Chapter Skim
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1 Bridging the Chasm Between Health and the Environment: Science and Policy Context
1 Bridging the Chasm Between Health and the Environment: Science and Policy Context
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At the end of the inquiry, I believe scientists concluded that the symptoms were caused by a combination of genetic susceptibilities to an environmental exposure among a subset of our military population. In parallel to the Gulf War experience, there have been a number of acute health observations in recent years that became the driving force behind the proposed environmental health tracking act, including the unusually high numbers of childhood leukemia in Fallon, Nevada (Nevada State Health Division, 2002)
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, we will have to create a national environmental health rapidresponse service to develop and implement strategies for coordinated rapid responses to public health and environmental concerns. There will
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Finally, the Act calls for a national environmental health report that will provide the public with the findings of the tracking network and the information it needs to ensure environmental health within its communities. Discussions of the nationwide tracking network are timely.
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Strategic programs such as EMAP provide a template for integrating monitoring data from many spatial and temporal scales and are critical for connecting environmental characteristics with human health outcomes. Programs such as EMAP can help bridge the environmenthealth chasm only if they use appropriate tools and rigorous, quantitative, and accessible methodologies.
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Because time constraints compel us to span the environmental health chasm before the bridge is built, the use of models to make accurate extrapolations is a primary tool of the EPA. Integrating tools, as well as data, from traditionally autonomous environmental and health organizations through partnership building is an important part of our construction strategy.
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Through the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and other legislation, we have begun to make good progress in several areas of environmental health in this country. Further, behavioral changes are beginning to have an influence on our environmental exposures.
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For example, at health centers in Detroit, Michigan, families are linked to local and state public health officials through a complex yet realistic "people chain." The families are connected through their neighborhoods to school nurses trained in asthma detection. The nurses, in turn, are connected to state and local public health officials who help them understand asthma symptoms, treatment, and proper care.
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In conclusion, the strong link between environmental factors and health effects indicates that public health leaders must be included whenever environmental issues are discussed.
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