Identifying priority health conditions, environmental data, and infrastructure needs: A synopsis of the Pew Environmental Health Tracking Project

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1414-1418

  Litt, Jill ^a   Tran, Nga ^b   Malecki, Kristen Chossek ^c   Neff, Roni ^c   Resnick, Beth ^c   Burke, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Disease surveillance; Environmental health indicators; Environmental public health tracking; Exposure; Health policy; Information systems

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RESEARCH SUPPORT; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6344255251     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7147     Document Type: Review

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