|  |  |  | The Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking Collaborative (WEPHTC) | | | The Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking Collaborative (WEPHTC) will streamline and centralize access to existing environmental, agricultural, and health data systems specific to Wisconsin creating a user-friendly Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking System. Its foundation is the already close working relationships with several health and environmental agencies and local health departments, the University of Wisconsin, and the State Laboratory of Hygiene. WEPHTC plans to conduct two pilot projects: the childhood cancer follow-back, and a pilot for three environmental indicators (carbon monoxide poisoning, methyl mercury exposure, and pesticide poisonings). For the childhood cancer follow-back project, information from the state tumor registry will be linked with environmental data, including, at a minimum, drinking water quality, ambient air quality, residential and regional pesticide use, traffic density near the home, and radiation exposures such as radon, x-ray, and electro-magnetic fields. An automated reporting system that will facilitate reporting by coroners, healthcare providers, local public health agencies, poison centers, and clinical laboratories will be developed for carbon monoxide and pesticide poisoning surveillance efforts. Additionally, a laboratory-based surveillance system for methyl mercury that will focus on adult males aged > 40 years will be developed. Hair samples from the males will be accompanied by a diet survey so that hair mercury levels can be compared with fish intake levels. These pilot projects will demonstrate the feasibility of linked environmental health data systems deployed on Wisconsin’s Health Alert Network. | | Website: http://www.dhfs.state.wi.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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