Wisconsin's environmental public health tracking network: Information systems design for childhood cancer surveillance

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1434-1439

  Hanrahan, Lawrence P ^a   Anderson, Henry A ^a   Busby, Brian ^b   Bekkedal, Marni ^a   Sieger, Thomas ^a   Stephenson, Laura ^a   Knobeloch, Lynda ^a   Werner, Mark ^a   Imm, Pamela ^a   Olson, Joseph ^a  

^a WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Environment; Exposures; Informatics; Information systems; Public health; Surveillance; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AUTOMATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WISCONSIN;

EID: 6344258978     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7150     Document Type: Article

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