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Environmental Health Indicators for China: Data Resources for Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking
- Source :
- Environmental Health Perspectives. April, 2019, Vol. 127 Issue 4, 044501
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Summary Many developed countries use environmental public health tracking to gain a better understanding of the link between environmental hazards and public health. To respond to complicated environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), has begun to build a Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking (CEPHT) system. On behalf of the CEPHT, authors provide insight into the CEPHT's development, current status, and future plans. In the initial stage of CEPHT, an indicator framework linking environment and public health that included a list of publicly available data sources regarding environmental hazards, public health outcomes, and risk factors in China was developed. An analysis of data availability, along with a comparison between CEPHT's indicator system and other tracking networks, revealed the existence of barriers and gaps in data integration that affect China's ability to track environmental public health. The lack of access to data, combined with inadequate data quality, has led to difficulties linking environmental hazards to their effects on public health. Current CEPHT efforts will help integrate environmental factors and exposure data with public health outcomes. For the near future, CEPHT plans to focus on increasing collaboration among data tracking agencies, improving data quality, and expanding proper data sharing. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319<br />Introduction China has faced greater environmental challenges than many other countries (Liu and Diamond 2005) and has experienced a remarkable transition in cause-specific mortality over the past three decades (Zhou [...]
- Subjects :
- United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Analysis
Information management -- Analysis -- Health aspects
Public health -- Analysis -- Health aspects
Environmental health -- Analysis -- Health aspects
Industrialized countries
Information accessibility
Environmental issues
Health
World Health Organization
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00916765
- Volume :
- 127
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.588839238
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319