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Environmental Health Indicators for China: Data Resources for Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking

Many developed countries use environmental public health tracking to gain a better understanding of the link between environmental hazards and public health. To respond to complicated environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Contr...

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Autores principales: Ban, Jie, Du, Zonghao, Wang, Qing, Ma, Runmei, Zhou, Ying, Li, Tiantian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Environmental Health Perspectives 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6785224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30990728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319
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author Ban, Jie
Du, Zonghao
Wang, Qing
Ma, Runmei
Zhou, Ying
Li, Tiantian
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description Many developed countries use environmental public health tracking to gain a better understanding of the link between environmental hazards and public health. To respond to complicated environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), has begun to build a Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking (CEPHT) system. On behalf of the CEPHT, authors provide insight into the CEPHT’s development, current status, and future plans. In the initial stage of CEPHT, an indicator framework linking environment and public health that included a list of publicly available data sources regarding environmental hazards, public health outcomes, and risk factors in China was developed. An analysis of data availability, along with a comparison between CEPHT’s indicator system and other tracking networks, revealed the existence of barriers and gaps in data integration that affect China’s ability to track environmental public health. The lack of access to data, combined with inadequate data quality, has led to difficulties linking environmental hazards to their effects on public health. Current CEPHT efforts will help integrate environmental factors and exposure data with public health outcomes. For the near future, CEPHT plans to focus on increasing collaboration among data tracking agencies, improving data quality, and expanding proper data sharing. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319
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spelling pubmed-67852242019-10-10 Environmental Health Indicators for China: Data Resources for Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking Ban, Jie Du, Zonghao Wang, Qing Ma, Runmei Zhou, Ying Li, Tiantian Environ Health Perspect Brief Communication Many developed countries use environmental public health tracking to gain a better understanding of the link between environmental hazards and public health. To respond to complicated environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), has begun to build a Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking (CEPHT) system. On behalf of the CEPHT, authors provide insight into the CEPHT’s development, current status, and future plans. In the initial stage of CEPHT, an indicator framework linking environment and public health that included a list of publicly available data sources regarding environmental hazards, public health outcomes, and risk factors in China was developed. An analysis of data availability, along with a comparison between CEPHT’s indicator system and other tracking networks, revealed the existence of barriers and gaps in data integration that affect China’s ability to track environmental public health. The lack of access to data, combined with inadequate data quality, has led to difficulties linking environmental hazards to their effects on public health. Current CEPHT efforts will help integrate environmental factors and exposure data with public health outcomes. For the near future, CEPHT plans to focus on increasing collaboration among data tracking agencies, improving data quality, and expanding proper data sharing. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319 Environmental Health Perspectives 2019-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6785224/ /pubmed/30990728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319 Text en EHP is an open-access journal published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. All content is public domain unless otherwise noted.
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