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5102.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Tools for tracking environmental health are important in the analysis of current and future health issues. This session will highlight trends in state environmental health policy and environmental public health tracking. The HAZARDS MAP as a tool for environmental health risk management will be presented. Laws that facilitate the acquisition of environmental public healt tracking data laws that allow or restrict the use of such data will be addressed. The results of a multi-year study to determine the importance of a nationwide health tracking network will be presented. The concept of biomonitoring in conjunction with environmental health surveillance will be discussed. A few examples of mapping tools that gives the public access to environmental health information will be demonstrated. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: Describe differing efforts by federal and state agencies and nonprofits to publicly distribute health and environmental data for geographic areas; Identify improtant policy relevant questions that may be addressed through biomonitoring projects; Describe and evaluate changes in environmental healh tracking capacity at the state level over the past five years; Describe the major legal issues that may affect the ability of states to engage in environmental public health tracking; Recognize the improtance of GIS technology in promoting environmental health. | |||
State policy trends in environmental health ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Glen Andersen, MSPH | |||
| Legal issues and environmental public health tracking project Lance Gable, JD, MPH | |||
| Training without Risk: The HAZARDS MAP as a Tool for Environmental Health Risk Management Salman Zarka, MD, MPH, Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, Livnat Edri, Andrei Chorin, DVM, Gil Tzabari, Ran Balicer, MD, MPH, Omer Ankol, MD, MPH | |||
| Advancing Health and Environmental Disease Tracking: A Five Year Follow-Up Study Jill Litt, PhD, Andrea Wismann, Beth Resnick, MPH, Rebecca Smullin, Mary Hano, MPH, Thomas A. Burke, MPH, PhD | |||
| Factors affecting the use of biomonitoring data in environmental health surveillance and practice Amy D. Kyle, PhD MPH, Kevin E. Marsee, Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, Martyn T. Smith, PhD, John R. Balmes, MD | |||
| Developing computer mapping tools for public access to environmental health information Kathleen Attfield, BS, Theresa Kennedy, BS, Allan Just, ScB, Sharon Gray, MA, MS, Ruthann Rudel, MS, Julia Green Brody, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA