Health Policy decisions are a complex mixture of "hard" data (clinical,laboratory, economic, epidemiologic etc) and political considerations. Environmental decisions often have long "latency" before health risks aretruly appreciated, as for example, the decision to use lead in gasoline. New public health laboratory developments seek to put powerful data on human exposures to environmental chemicals into the hands of the public, their clinicians, and policy makers, perhaps to avoid or at least identify new lead-like disasters. This presentation will reflect on the health and policy uses of these human data.
Learning Objectives: To demonstrate public, scientific, and governmental use of data on human exposures to environmental chemicals.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.