Environmental Public Health Tracking: a cost-effective system for characterizing the sources, distribution and public health impacts of environmental hazards | Zendy

P J Saunders | Zendy; John Middleton | Zendy; Gavin Rudge | Zendy

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Environmental Public Health Tracking: a cost-effective system for characterizing the sources, distribution and public health impacts of environmental hazards

Author(s) -

P J Saunders,

John Middleton,

Gavin Rudge

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdw130

Subject(s) - public health , environmental health , distribution (mathematics) , environmental planning , tracking (education) , environmental epidemiology , business , environmental resource management , environmental science , medicine , psychology , mathematical analysis , pedagogy , nursing , mathematics

The contemporary environment is a complex of interactions between physical, biological, socio-economic systems with major impacts on public health. However, gaps in our understanding of the causes, extent and distribution of these effects remain. The public health community in Sandwell West Midlands has collaborated to successfully develop, pilot and establish the first Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) programme in Europe to address this 'environmental health gap' through systematically linking data on environmental hazards, exposures and diseases.

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