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Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) program to support state and local projects that characterize the impact of the environment on health. The projects involve compiling, linking, analyzing, and disseminating environmental and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20098504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11869-009-0059-6 |
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author | Matte, Thomas D. Cohen, Aaron Dimmick, Fred Samet, Jonathan Sarnat, Jeremy Yip, Fuyuen Jones, Nicholas |
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description | The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) program to support state and local projects that characterize the impact of the environment on health. The projects involve compiling, linking, analyzing, and disseminating environmental and health surveillance information, thereby engaging stakeholders and guiding actions to improve public health. One of the EPHT objectives is to track the public health impact of ambient air pollution with analyses that are timely and relevant to state and local stakeholders. To address methodological issues relevant to this objective, in January 2008, government officials and researchers from the USA, Canada, and Europe gathered in Baltimore, Maryland for a 2-day workshop. Using commissioned papers and presentations on key methodological issues as well as examples of previous air pollution impact assessments, work group discussions produced a set of consensus recommendations for the EPHT program. These recommendations noted the need for data that will encourage local stakeholders to support continued progress in air pollution control. The limitations of using only local data for analyses were also noted. To improve local estimates of air pollution health impacts, methods were recommended that “borrow strength” from other evidence. An incremental approach to implementing such methods was recommended. The importance and difficulty of communicating uncertainties in local health impact assessments was emphasized, as was the need for coordination among different agencies conducting health impact assessments. |
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spelling | pubmed-28057882010-01-22 Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects Matte, Thomas D. Cohen, Aaron Dimmick, Fred Samet, Jonathan Sarnat, Jeremy Yip, Fuyuen Jones, Nicholas Air Qual Atmos Health Article The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) program to support state and local projects that characterize the impact of the environment on health. The projects involve compiling, linking, analyzing, and disseminating environmental and health surveillance information, thereby engaging stakeholders and guiding actions to improve public health. One of the EPHT objectives is to track the public health impact of ambient air pollution with analyses that are timely and relevant to state and local stakeholders. To address methodological issues relevant to this objective, in January 2008, government officials and researchers from the USA, Canada, and Europe gathered in Baltimore, Maryland for a 2-day workshop. Using commissioned papers and presentations on key methodological issues as well as examples of previous air pollution impact assessments, work group discussions produced a set of consensus recommendations for the EPHT program. These recommendations noted the need for data that will encourage local stakeholders to support continued progress in air pollution control. The limitations of using only local data for analyses were also noted. To improve local estimates of air pollution health impacts, methods were recommended that “borrow strength” from other evidence. An incremental approach to implementing such methods was recommended. The importance and difficulty of communicating uncertainties in local health impact assessments was emphasized, as was the need for coordination among different agencies conducting health impact assessments. Springer Netherlands 2009-12-31 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2805788/ /pubmed/20098504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11869-009-0059-6 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Matte, Thomas D. Cohen, Aaron Dimmick, Fred Samet, Jonathan Sarnat, Jeremy Yip, Fuyuen Jones, Nicholas Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
title | Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
title_full | Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
title_fullStr | Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
title_full_unstemmed | Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
title_short | Summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
title_sort | summary of the workshop on methodologies for environmental public health tracking of air pollution effects |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20098504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11869-009-0059-6 |
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