Environmental Public Health Tracking, an Untapped Resource for Occupational Health

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• Personal Author:
  Bush K ; Cosser A ; English P ; Karlsson N ; Mitchell C ; Monti M ; Namulanda G ; Nogueira I ; Solomon G ; Werner A ; Bush K ; Cosser A ; English P ; Karlsson N ; Mitchell C ; Monti M ; Namulanda G ; Nogueira I ; Solomon G ; Werner A
• Description:
  The cornerstone of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) is the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network)-a web-based system with components at the local, state, and national levels (Qualters et al. 2015). The Tracking Network brings together standardized data on environmental hazards, exposures to these hazards, potentially related health effects, and other data such as socioeconomic and risk factors (CDC 2021). The Tracking Program uses these data to perform environmental public health surveillance activities, such as identifying and assessing the distribution of hazards in the environment and the health effects resulting from exposure to these hazards, to provide information that can be used to improve the public's health (Qualters et al. 2015; Eatman and Strosnider 2017). The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) surveillance programs perform similar activities but with workers as their target population, and with the goal to improve worker safety and health (Thomsen et al. 2007; NIOSH 2022a). Population-based health and hazard data from environmental public health programs are useful in understanding the broader environment in which individuals, including workers, live. To account for and understand the multiple and cumulative exposure sources and risk factors, occupational health studies can be strengthened by environmental and health data within the Tracking Program, while occupational data can also improve population health studies. Collaboration between environmental public health and occupational health programs on these activities, and their strengths, expertise, and resources (e.g., analysis tools and data) helps both programs meet their goals. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Occupational Health Public Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Environmental Hazards Health Effects Public Health Socioeconomics Surveillance Work Environment Worker Health Workers Worker Safety
• ISSN:
  1545-9624
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Georgia ; Maryland ; New Hampshire ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066330
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Hyg 2022 Oct-Nov; 19(10-11):591-595
• Contact Point Address:
  Gonza Namulanda, Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30341
• Email:
  fos0@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland State Department of Health, Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212799/cdc_212799_DS1.pdf
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