|  |  |  | The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) | | | The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), will develop the Oklahoma Public Health Environmental Tracking System (OK-PHETS) using health effects data from the Oklahoma Central Cancer Registry, the Oklahoma Birth Defects Registry, the Oklahoma Asthma Surveillance System, and the Oklahoma Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. The DEQ currently collects data regarding public water supplies, air quality, landfills, chemical use by facilities across the state, total air emissions, lead-based paint abated structures, and hazardous waste generators. The DEQ collects information about 14 Superfund sites and 117 voluntary cleanup and Brownfield sites. These hazards data will be used for this linkage project. The specific objectives of this project are to link data on childhood lead poisoning, asthma, birth defects, and cancer with environmental hazard data from the DEQ and standardize the surveillance systems within the OSDH and DEQ to allow for ongoing surveillance, linking of data, assessment of health problems, development of public health interventions, assessment of intervention effectiveness, and dissemination of findings about priority health exposures and health effects. | | Website: http://www.health.state.ok.us/ |
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Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1440 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone 504.988.1774 | Fax 504.988.7352 | |
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