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3114.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Robust examination of links between environmental exposures and disease is challenging. Whereas in a randomized control trial of a pharmaceutical, for example, investigators know who was exposed in what doses, exposure assessment in environmental health studies is inherently more complex and less precise. As concern has grown about associations between contaminated air, water and soil and rising rates of a range of chronic illnesses, researchers have developed increasingly sophisticated methods for assessing exposures to environmental pollutants, and for anticipating health outcomes. The five papers in this session describe innovative approaches to characterizing exposure, including the development of metrics for environmental concentration and human body burden data in the context of environmental health tracking; a case study applying a methodology for health risk interpretation of biomonitoring data; use of spatial approaches in research; a spatial system that also incorporates a time element (often especially important in environmental epidemiology) and a state system that tracks chemical release events. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe new tools used to enhance exposure assessment for environmental epidemiology and environmenthal health studies more broadly. 2. Articulate emerging metrics to assess, interpret and communicate exposure assessment and health outcome data in the context of environmental public health tracking. | |||
| Molly Jacobs, MPH Polly Hoppin, ScD Max Weintraub, MS Sacoby M. Wilson, MS | |||
| Sacoby Wilson Vince Radke, MPH, RS | |||
| Significance of metrics for concentrations of environmental contaminants and exposures for environmental public health tracking Amy D Kyle, PhD MPH | |||
Monitoring Body Burden: A Tool for Environmental Health Tracking ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH, Daniel A. Axelrad, Rosemary Castorina, PhD, MPH, Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH | |||
| Using spatial models to support public health research Marie Lynn Miranda, PhD, Alan Gelfand, PhD | |||
| Improving exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology: Application of a Space-Time Information System (STIS) to assess arsenic exposure in drinking water Melissa J. Slotnick, MPH, MESc, Jaymie Meliker, MS, Gillian Avruskin, MS, Andrew Kaufmann, MS, Geoffrey Jacquez, PhD, Jerome Nriagu, PhD | |||
| New York HSEES: Using surveillance data on the characteristics and public health consequences of hazardous substances releases to develop interventions Wanda Lizak Welles, PhD, Rebecca E Wilburn, MPH, Jenny K. Ehrlich, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Statistics | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||