Advancing Health and Environmental Disease Tracking

A 5-Year Follow-Up Study

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ID11032121
AutoresJacquelyn Litt (0000-0001-8593-5400, Johns Hopkins University), Jill S Litt (Jill S. Litt and Andrea Wismann are with the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver. Beth Resnick and Thomas A. Burke are with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. Rebecca Smullin Dawson and Mary Hano are with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC.), Andrea Wismann (0009-0003-1403-7840, Jill S. Litt and Andrea Wismann are with the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver. Beth Resnick and Thomas A. Burke are with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. Rebecca Smullin Dawson and Mary Hano are with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC.), Beth Resnick (0000-0001-6214-9378, Jill S. Litt and Andrea Wismann are with the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver. Beth Resnick and Thomas A. Burke are with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. Rebecca Smullin Dawson and Mary Hano are with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC.), Rebecca Smullin Dawson (Jill S. Litt and Andrea Wismann are with the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver. Beth Resnick and Thomas A. Burke are with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. Rebecca Smullin Dawson and Mary Hano are with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC.), Rebecca Dawson (0000-0002-9752-3531, Johns Hopkins University), Mary Hano (Jill S. Litt and Andrea Wismann are with the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver. Beth Resnick and Thomas A. Burke are with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. Rebecca Smullin Dawson and Mary Hano are with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC.), Mary Clare Hano (0000-0001-5828-0138, Johns Hopkins University), Thomas A Burke (0000-0002-6808-1252, Jill S. Litt and Andrea Wismann are with the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver. Beth Resnick and Thomas A. Burke are with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. Rebecca Smullin Dawson and Mary Hano are with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC.)
Año2007
Volumen97
Número3
Páginas456-463
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2005.085126
PMID17267714
PMCIDPMC1805025
OpenAlexW2034986521
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas1

Objectives. Our goal was to gain an understanding of the extent to which environmental public health tracking (EPHT) has progressed since the release of the 2000 Pew Environmental Health Commission report examining the nation’s EPHT infrastructure. Methods. As a follow-up to the Pew Commission report, we conducted a telephone survey of state practitioners in an effort to assess EPHT trends and changes in state-level capacities and activities over the past several years. Results. We found that new and enhanced federal–state partnerships; improved surveillance, data analysis, and communication capacities; and enhanced support of tracking personnel have provided a foundation for progress in the area of EPHT. Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s support of EPHT has strengthened the national environmental public health infrastructure and capacity to track environmental hazards, exposures, and health. Conclusions. Improved funding, data access, and translation of data to prevention activities are critical to sustaining progress in EPHT and developing the evidence base necessary for assessing the longer-term impacts and efficacy of EPHT and related environmental health improvements

Business · Commission · Disease control · Environmental health · Political science · Public health · Tracking (education) · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education · Gerontology