Monitoring wastewater for assessing community health: Sewage Chemical-Information Mining (SCIM).

ABSTRACT: Timely assessment of the aggregate health of small-area human populations is essential for guiding the optimal investment of resources needed for preventing, avoiding, controlling, or mitigating human exposure risks, as well as for maintaining or promoting health. Seeking those interventions yielding the greatest benefit with respect to the allocation of resources is critical for making progress toward community sustainability, reducing health disparities, promoting social justice, and maintaining or improving collective health and well-being. More informative, faster, and less-costly approaches are needed for guiding investigation of cause-effect linkages involving communities and stressors originating from both the built and natural environments. One such emerging approach involves the c

SUBMITTER: Daughton CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6091531 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature