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Erin Dreyling,Elizabeth J Dederick,Ramya Chari,Beth Resnick,Kristen Chossek Malecki,Thomas Burke,Roni Neff,Erin Dreyling,Elizabeth J Dederick,Ramya Chari,Beth Resnick,Kristen Chossek Malecki,Thomas Burke,Roni Neff,

Examining the relationship between health outcomes and environmental exposures requires summary measures, or indicators. To advance the use of indicators, the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking piloted three pairs of indicators: 1) air toxics and leukemia in New Jersey, 2) mercury emissions and fish advisories in the United States, and 3) urban sprawl and obesity in New Jersey. These analyses illustrate the feasibility of creating environmental hazard, exposure, and health outcome indicators, examining their temporal and geographic trends, and identifying their temporal and geographic relationships. They also show the importance of including appropriate caveats with the findings. The authors' investigations demonstrate how existing environmental health data can be used to create meaningful indicator measures to further the understanding of environment-related diseases and to help prioritize and guide interventions. Indicators are the foundation of environmental public health tracking, and increased use and development of them are necessary for the establishment of a nationwide tracking network capable of linking environmental exposures and health outcomes.

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E Dreyling,EJ Dederick,R Chari,B Resnick,KC Malecki,T Burke,R Neff,E Dreyling,EJ Dederick,R Chari,B Resnick,KC Malecki,T Burke,R Neff,

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, U.S. Gov't,

Journal: Journal of environmental health

VOLUME: 70

Page Numbers: 9-16, 38, 40; quiz 41-2

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ISSN: 0022-0892

DAY: 14

MONTH: Dec

YEAR: 2007

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AFFILIATION: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. ekdreyling@yahoo.com

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