Environmental Health Indicators Bridging the Chasm of Public Health and the Environment: Workshop Summary (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
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. In the midst of this crisis, state and local public health agencies were able to use trends to identify important risk factors from the data and to develop interventions to protect vulnerable groups from heat-related health effects.
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Environmental health monitoring was advanced further by the Institute of Medicine's report The Future of Public Health (1988) and the Pew Environmental Health Commission Report America's Environmental Health Gap: Why the Country Needs a National Health Tracking Network (2000b)
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Its work is conducted primarily through study committees that issue reports. The issues addressed by the IOM cover a broad range from environmental health to basic biology and tackle controversial topics of vital importance, such as medical errors (Kohn et al., 2000)
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The national environmental health monitoring system can play an important role in increasing collaboration among organizations and can be a useful tool for engaging the public's interest in public health. The Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and other agencies currently conduct activities and programs for monitoring human exposure to various environmental hazards.
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The challenge of this workshop was for participants to think how a national monitoring system fits into current exposure monitoring and a comprehensive science program. Further, people involved in designing the system need to discuss how to bring about not only a reunion of health and the environment, but a broader reunion of health care delivery and the science of environmental health.
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