Environmental Metrics for Community Health Improvement

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Jakubowski, Benjamin ; Frumkin, Howard
• Description:
  Environmental factors greatly affect human health. Accordingly, environmental metrics are a key part of the community health information base. We review environmental metrics relevant to community health, including measurements of contaminants in environmental media, such as air, water, and food; measurements of contaminants in people (biomonitoring); measurements of features of the built environment that affect health; and measurements of "upstream" environmental conditions relevant to health. We offer a set of metrics (including unhealthy exposures, such as pollutants, and health-promoting assets, such as parks and green space) selected on the basis of relevance to health outcomes, magnitude of associated health outcomes, corroboration in the peer-reviewed literature, and data availability, especially at the community level, and we recommend ways to use these metrics most effectively.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution Environmental Monitoring Environment Design Health Policy Health Priorities Health Status Indicators Humans Special Topic Waste Management
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 7(4).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/4176/cdc_4176_DS1.pdf
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