Evaluating, Developing, and Delivering Air Quality Characterization Data to Environmental Public Health Tracking Partners
Participating Organizations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state, academic, and other partners to develop a National Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Network. The EPA is developing routinely available air quality information and forecasting tools as well as indicators that can be used to help measure the success of its programs in terms of public health outcomes. The National EPHT Network is a possible mechanism for achieving these mutual goals of relating health surveillance data to environmental exposures.
Objective
To develop, evaluate, and demonstrate the advantages and limitations of different methods of generating air quality characterization surveillance data that can be systematically and routinely available to link with public health surveillance data as part of the EPHT Network. The evaluation portion of this project is scheduled for completion by September 2005.
Participating Organizations
CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health
EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory
EPA’s Office of Air Quality, Standards, and Planning
Wisconsin Division of Public Health
New York State Department of Health
Maine Bureau of Health
Air Pollutants
Ozone
Particulate matter (PM)
Sources of Air Quality Characterization
Ambient air monitors
NASA Satellite Aerosol Optical Depth
EPA/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Community Multiscale Air Quality Model
Statistically Combined Sources
Air Quality Measures for Linkage
24-Hour average PM concentration
1-Hour ozone concentration
8-Hour ozone concentration
Health Effects
Adult and pediatric asthma
Acute cardiovascular endpoints
Myocardial infarction
Congestive heart failure
Stroke
Sources of Health Effect Data
Hospital discharge
Mortality
Emergency department (one state only)
Health Effect Measures for Linkage
Daily hospital/emergency department admissions
Residential address
Aggregated to zip code
Aggregated to city
Aggregated to county
Daily mortality counts
Potential Public Health Actions
Assess Air Quality Index (AQI)/alert awareness and effectiveness
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