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Session: Using Data to Strengthen Environmental Public Health
4033.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Using Data to Strengthen Environmental Public Health
A key role of infrastructure in public health is the ability to identify, track, and make meaningful interpretations of data. It is in this way that systems can be established and maintained to improve and protect public health. This session will showcase four environmental health demonstration projects. Topics addressed will include: (a) the hazards, exposures, and health effects that are important for environmental public health tracking, (b) the public health significance of these highlighted systems, (c) the challenges and opportunities for developing tracking/surveillance systems, (d) the concept of internet-based reporting surveillance activities, and (d) issues associated with linking health and environmental data.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant will be able to: 1) understand the need for environmental public health tracking and surveillance, 2) describe current activities to develop tracking and surveillance systems, 3)understand how data systems are useful.
Organizer(s):Stefanie DeOLLoqui, MS
James Mack
Dr, Rebecca Head, PhD, DABT
Max Weintraub, MS
Sacoby M. Wilson, MS
Moderator(s):D. Kevin Horton, MSPH
8:30 AMEnvironmental public health tracking: Turning vision into reality  [ Recorded presentation ]
W. Randolph Daley, DVM, MPH, Judith R. Qualters, PhD, Vickie Boothe, Leslie A. Todorov, MPH, Amanda Sue Niskar, DrPH, RN
8:50 AMEnvironmental public health tracking: Linking environment and health data, lessons learned from integration efforts  [ Recorded presentation ]
Leslie A. Todorov, MPH, Gambrelli Layco, MFS
9:10 AMEnvironmental public health tracking: Health and Environment Linked for Information Exchange, Atlanta (HELIX-Atlanta)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Amanda Sue Niskar, DrPH, RN, Gabriel Rainisch, MPH, HELIX-Atlanta Partners
9:30 AMBuilding and strengthening public health infrastructure: A focus on online foodborne illness surveillance and visitor data entry patterns  [ Recorded presentation ]
Holly Wethington, MS, Paul Bartlett, MPH, PhD, DVM
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Public Health Nursing; Statistics
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA