Environmental Health Indicators for China: Data Resources for Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking.

ABSTRACT: Many developed countries use environmental public health tracking to gain a better understanding of the link between environmental hazards and public health. To respond to complicated environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), has begun to build a Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking (CEPHT) system. On behalf of the CEPHT, authors provide insight into the CEPHT's development, current status, and future plans. In the initial stage of CEPHT, an indicator framework linking environment and public health that included a list of publicly available data sources regarding environmental hazards, public health outcomes, and risk factors in China was developed. An analysis of data availabil

SUBMITTER: Ban J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6785224 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature