1 / 16

Lesa Roberts (Ks) June 4, 2008 lesaroberts@kdhe.state.ks

National Tribal Air Association Conference on Air Quality Environmental Health Indicators A State Health Perspective. Lesa Roberts (Ks) June 4, 2008 lesaroberts@kdhe.state.ks.us. Overview. SEHIC - Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists Selection of AQ indicators & measures

odette
Télécharger la présentation

Lesa Roberts (Ks) June 4, 2008 lesaroberts@kdhe.state.ks

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. National Tribal Air Association Conference on Air QualityEnvironmental Health Indicators A State Health Perspective Lesa Roberts (Ks) June 4, 2008 lesaroberts@kdhe.state.ks.us Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  2. Overview • SEHIC - Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists • Selection of AQ indicators & measures • Examples of AQ indicators • Results • Lessons learned Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  3. Why Indicators? • Need to measure human health impact on and from the environment • Indicators – tools to identify and communicate population health status as it relates to environmental factors Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  4. SEHIC work groups • Topic areas • important for environmental health practice • agreement & interest among state partners • public concerns • state & national environmental public health priorities Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  5. Indicator Workgroups • Drinking water • Air Quality • Asthma • Climate change Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  6. Selecting indicators - measures • Focus on documented human health “hazard” – Particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3) • Measure – derived from values with temporal & geographic association (time/place) • Exposure surrogate Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  7. Air Work Group • Indicator categories: • Ambient concentrations of criteria pollutants • Exceedances of AQI indices/standards • Hazardous Air Pollutants • Climate Change Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  8. Documents • Description Templates • Standardized templates • Measurement units, scales (time, geography) • How-To Guides • Step-by-step how to access data sets • Generate reports Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  9. Challenges • Changes in EPA standards/reporting • Display or visualization (communicating) • Variability in data collection, quality • Population-based calculations • Redundancy Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  10. MORE INFORMATION: • CSTE Environmental Health website EPHI information • http://www.cste.org/ps/2001/2001-env-02.htm • http://www.cste.org/dnn/ProgramsandActivities/EnvironmentalHealth/tabid/69/Default.aspx • CDC EPHI & Environmental Public Health Tracking http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/indicators/ • http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/tracking/

  11. Acknowledgement SEHIC - Air Indicators Workgroup Paul English (CA) Prakash Patel, Tammy Eagan, Greg Kearney (FL) Vickie Boothe, Paul Garbe, Jackie Howell, Leslie Fierro, Fuyuen Yip (CDC) Fred Dimmick (US EPA) Lesa Roberts (KS) Amy Kyle (UC – Berkeley) Judith Graber (ME) The workgroup is supported by CSTE and NCEH/CDC. Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

  12. Thank you Contact information: Lesa Roberts lesaroberts@kdhe.state.ks.us 785/296-2501 Our Vision – Healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments.

More Related