The continuing discoveries of hazardous waste sites have stimulated environmental health risk assessment efforts in State and local environmental health agencies. Elements of risk assessment are defined, showing how risk assessment interfaces with risk management. Environmental health risk assessment involves work components (tasks, activities, and technologies), the worker (position, classification, and occupation), and work organization (purpose, outputs, and objectives). Information from six State agencies was used to describe current State government experiences with environmental health risk assessment. Education and risk assessment are described, particularly as they relate to schools of public health and the role of continuing education for the public health work force.
Richwald, G A; Wamsley, M A; Coulson, A H; Morisky, D E;
Published Date:
1988 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(4):355-359
Description:
The use of condoms has assumed a central position in the current strategy to prevent sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. The effectiveness of condoms in disease prophylaxis is dependent, to a degree, on their correct use. Condom ...
Health promotion-disease prevention programs share with health behavior research the common objective of identifying population subgroups toward whom services can be targeted. For this report, six age-sex groups were examined to determine similaritie...
In 1980, the Department of Health and Human Services set national prevention objectives for 1990 in 15 health priority areas, 1 of which is the control of toxic agents and radiation. Ten objectives related to this area are priorities for the national...
A survey was made of the parents of 380 children whose mobility impairments require the use of a wheelchair, walker, or braces. They were asked about equipment, health services, related services, and family support services used during the previous y...
Mittelmark, M B; Leupker, R V; Grimm, R; Kottke, T E; Blackburn, H;
Published Date:
1988 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(4):360-365
Description:
The Minnesota Heart Health Program (MHHP) aims to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality by reducing risk factors among the mass of residents in three midwestern communities. A major aspect of the program is the involvement of co...
We examined the relationship between drug use by young adolescents and two indicators of illness, frequency of illness and numbers of days absent from school owing to illness. Data were from a general health survey of all eighth grade students enroll...
Fingerhut, Lois A.; Kleinman, Joel C.; Malloy, M H; Feldman, J J;
Published Date:
1988 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(4):399-405
Description:
Injuries and violence are the primary causes of death among young children in the United States. In particular, in 1982-84 motor vehicle injuries, fires, drowning, and homicide were the leading external causes of death at ages 1-4 years and 5-9 years...
A telephone survey of physicians in Los Angeles County revealed that 50 percent of 405 contacted were unaware of the legal mechanism for reporting communicable diseases--the Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) card. After that survey, three measures ...
Remington, Patrick L.; Smith, Meredith Y.; Williamson, David F.; Anda, Robert F.; Gentry, Eileen M.; Hogelin, Gary C.;
Published Date:
1988 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(4):366-375
Description:
Since 1981, the Centers for Disease Control has collaborated with State health departments and the District of Columbia to conduct random digit-dialed telephone surveys of adults concerning their health practices and behaviors. This State-based surve...
This research endeavors to broaden our knowledge of smokers' characteristics within ethnic groups. Special attention is given to Mexican Americans, a group that until recently has received scant attention in comparative research on smoking. In genera...
The persistent underuse of family planning services by inner-city, low-income, sexually active youth underscores the importance of testing innovative programs that maximize participation. Presented in this paper is an analysis of a Chicago public hea...
A retrospective study of 1,052 unintentional drowning deaths in North Carolina during the period from 1980 through 1984 was carried out, with emphasis on the victims' activity and alcohol consumption, and the settings of the accidents. The data sugge...
United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Division of Community Heath Investigations.
Published Date:
04/15/2019
Series:
Health consultation
Description:
In 2005, ATSDR received a petition from a citizen of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The petitioner was concerned about plans to build a middle school on a former waste dump. The petitioner asked ATSDR to investigate the property where Keith Middle Schoo...
United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Division of Community Health Investigations.. Indiana. Department of Health..
Published Date:
08/16/2018
Series:
Health consultation
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating and remediating residential properties contaminated by emissions from former industrial facilities within the boundaries of the USS Lead Superfund site (“Site”) in East Chicago, Indi...
United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Division of Community Heath Investigations.
Published Date:
June 07, 2019
Series:
Health consultation
Description:
cdc:79885The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepared this factsheet to share our findings of the health consultation report to address concerns from a citizen who petitioned ATSDR. Some of the petitioner’s concerns have al...
United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Published Date:
5/29/2014
Description:
To help keep people healthy and safe, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Gathers as much information as possible about chemicals that might be dangerous; Publishes this information as Toxicological Profiles, or ToxProfilesâ...