With the resident still on the phone, Sam Lefevre, MS, program manager for the department's Environmental Epidemiology Program, accessed Utah's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, gathering data on whether the region in question was experiencing disease trends that would point to perchlorate contamination.
Seeking to correct this concern, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have initiated the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network to expand on state efforts (such as California's) and create a national system to track environmental exposures and hazards.
Department of Health and Human Services is working with selected state and local health departments, academic centers, and others to develop an environmental public health tracking initiative to improve geographic and temporal surveillance of environmental hazards, exposures, and related health outcomes.
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Under its National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, CDC has been providing grants for the past four years to states so that they can improve surveillance of environmental health.
In the United States, an environmental public health tracking initiative to develop capacity for ongoing assessment of environmental hazards, exposures, and health outcomes is being coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (CDC 2003a; Marmagas et al.
Through a CDC/NCEH cooperative agreement, NEHA and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) continue to develop the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) program as participants in monthly program marketing/outreach conference calls.
