Environmental Public Health Tracking: From Data to Action

Yip, Fuyuen

doi:10.1097/phh.0000000000000632

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“…While previous studies focused on single cities, the authors leveraged the data available via the Tracking Program to look at the association between air pollution and respiratory ER visits across hundreds of U.S. counties. At the state and local levels, there have been efforts to use tracking program resources and/or data in establishing unique and diverse partnerships, developing innovative ways to use the data and resources, and identifying approaches to making the data more accessible, all to improve public health at the local, state and national levels [30].…”

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“…focused on single cities, the authors leveraged the data available via the Tracking Program to look at the association between air pollution and respiratory ER visits across hundreds of U.S. counties. At the state and local levels, there have been efforts to use tracking program resources and/or data in establishing unique and diverse partnerships, developing innovative ways to use the data and resources, and identifying approaches to making the data more accessible, all to improve public health at the local, state and national levels [30]. Meanwhile, EPHT in England [32] includes several programmes of surveillance of environmental hazards, exposures and health outcomes [33], e.g., population exposure estimation of arsenic in private water supplies [34], the burden of disease of carbon monoxide poisoning, [35] lead exposure in children [36,37], developing methods of risk prioritisation to support environmental public health interventions [38 ] and guidance for investigating non-infectious disease clusters from potential environmental causes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In summary, we have outlined some global examples of environmental and health information integration, which highlights the notion that factual and common constraints can be overcome. Such reviews of tracking and similar programmes around the world indicate that EPHT has the potential to facilitate the translation of science into public health practice and go beyond just providing data or information to users and stakeholders, helping generate intelligence that is sufficiently mature to be translated into actions [30]. This recognition led to the creation of the International Network on Public Health and Environment Tracking (INPHET) in 2013 [16].…”

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Advancing Global Health through Environmental and Public Health Tracking

Lauriola

Crabbe

Behbod

et al. 2020

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Global environmental change has degraded ecosystems. Challenges such as climate change, resource depletion (with its huge implications for human health and wellbeing), and persistent social inequalities in health have been identified as global public health issues with implications for both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. This contributes to pressure on healthcare systems, as well as societal systems that affect health. A novel strategy to tackle these multiple, interacting and interdependent drivers of change is required to protect the population’s health. Public health professionals have found that building strong, enduring interdisciplinary partnerships across disciplines can address environment and health complexities, and that developing Environmental and Public Health Tracking (EPHT) systems has been an effective tool. EPHT aims to merge, integrate, analyse and interpret environmental hazards, exposure and health data. In this article, we explain that public health decision-makers can use EPHT insights to drive public health actions, reduce exposure and prevent the occurrence of disease more precisely in efficient and cost-effective ways. An international network exists for practitioners and researchers to monitor and use environmental health intelligence, and to support countries and local areas toward sustainable and healthy development. A global network of EPHT programs and professionals has the potential to advance global health by implementing and sharing experience, to magnify the impact of local efforts and to pursue data knowledge improvement strategies, aiming to recognise and support best practices. EPHT can help increase the understanding of environmental public health and global health, improve comparability of risks between different areas of the world including Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), enable transparency and trust among citizens, institutions and the private sector, and inform preventive decision making consistent with sustainable and healthy development. This shows how EPHT advances global health efforts by sharing recent global EPHT activities and resources with those working in this field. Experiences from the US, Europe, Asia and Australasia are outlined for operating successful tracking systems to advance global health.

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Section: Some Experiences Of Environmental Public Health Trackingmentioning

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Advancing Global Health through Environmental and Public Health Tracking

Lauriola

Crabbe

Behbod

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“…Efforts at using environmental health indicators to influence public health decisionmaking have increased since the 1990s [14]. Initial attempts at adding environmental and health indicators [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] have evolved into the implementation of environmental public health tracking programs in some middle-or high-income countries [24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Additionally, environmental science specialists have developed a "socio ecological system" approach to emphasize the need to look at the interactions between social, economic, and ecological phenomena [31].…”

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Environmental and Social Factors Associated with High Chronic Kidney Disease Mortality Rates in Municipalities of Guatemala: An Ecological Study of Municipal-Level Mortality Data

Cerón

2023

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The purpose of this study was to determine the association between social and environmental indicators and high mortality rates from chronic kidney disease (CKD) in municipalities of Guatemala. An ecological study of municipal-level factors associated with CKD mortality in Guatemala was conducted. Crude mortality rates were calculated for the 2009–2019 period for each of the country’s 340 municipalities, by gender and age groups. Municipal-level social and environmental indicators were used as independent variables. Linear regression was used for bivariate and multivariate analysis. A total of 28,723 deaths from CKD were documented for the 2009–2019 period. Average crude mortality rate for all ages for the country’s 340 municipalities was 70.66 per 100,000 [0–502.99]. Very highly positive associations with high mortality rates were found in two agrarian territories where land use is mainly for permanent crops (e.g., sugar cane, coffee, rubber, banana, plantain, African palm) and pastures for cattle, with very low percentages of land covered by forests or protected areas. Social factors related to poverty and environmental factors related to agricultural use of land may play a role in the high CKD mortality rates documented in a cluster of municipalities of Guatemala.

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Developing environmental health indicators [EHIs] for Iran based on the causal effect model

Maroosi

Mesdaghinia

Alimohammadi

et al. 2019

J Environ Health Sci Engineer

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Background Environmental health monitoring and its effects on health are very important in health systems. Relationship between environment and health can be done by simplifying data in understandable indicators for people and policy-makers. The present study presents the general framework for formulating environmental health quality index for Iran. Methods This study was implemented through expert panel at two levels: indicator domain determination and domain specific variables selection. Domain specific variables were selected based on the Driving force-Pressure-State-Exposure-Effect-Action (DPSEEA) framework from the list of national and international variables. Results Seven environmental health issues [air quality, drinking water, sewage disposal, food, radiation management and housing and human settlements] were determined, and three variables were selected for air quality, 8 variables for water quality, 5 variables for sanitation, 1 variable for food quality, 3 variables for housing and human settlements, 4 variables for solid waste management and 3 variables for radiation management. Conclusions Environmental health indicators determination based on the causal effect model leads to a better understanding of the relationship between the environment and health by simplifying data in an understandable format for public and improves prioritization of policy-making in the environmental health. In this study, environmental health indicators for Iran were proposed.

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Environmental Public Health Tracking: From Data to Action

Cited by 4 publications

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Advancing Global Health through Environmental and Public Health Tracking

Advancing Global Health through Environmental and Public Health Tracking

Environmental and Social Factors Associated with High Chronic Kidney Disease Mortality Rates in Municipalities of Guatemala: An Ecological Study of Municipal-Level Mortality Data

Developing environmental health indicators [EHIs] for Iran based on the causal effect model

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