The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) plans to demonstrate and evaluate methods for linking data from ongoing, existing health effects surveillance systems in Florida with data from existing human exposure and environmental hazards surveillance/monitoring systems. The FDOH will focus on linking statewide surveillance systems for asthma, autism, mental retardation, behavioral disorders, select cancers, and select birth defects with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory, the FDEP’s statewide ambient air monitoring data, and data from the statewide well water surveillance program. Geographic information systems (GIS) technology and analyses will be used to link data.
Environmental Public Health Tracking Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1440 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone 504.988.1774 | Fax 504.988.7352
