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January 20, 2005

Environmental Health Indicators: Bridging the Chasm of Public Health and the

Environment (This is from the Institute of Medicine, NIH)

Project: _Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and

Medicine_ (http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=4897) Published On: November 1,

2004 _Read and Purchase_

a number of calls for a national environmental health monitoring system that

would expand current human exposure monitoring and health surveillance

efforts complemented by the development and validation of a variety of

potential

indicators for environmental health status. Some members of Congress have

begun work on legislation to appropriate funds needed to provide for such a

system, while Federal agencies have begun discussions of implementation and

development of indicators.

Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences,

Research, and Medicine convened a workshop on Environmental Health Indicators:

Bridging the Chasm of Public Health and the Environment as an opportunity to

discuss current efforts by industry, private, global, and U.S. federal and

state

governments.

The goal of the workshop was to look into monitoring systems of other

nations; to consider the need for a national environmental health monitoring

system; to foster a dialogue on the steps for establishing a nationwide

monitoring

system; and to explore how a national system will fit into current exposure

and disease monitoring programs. This report provides a summary of the

workshop discussions.

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