Environmental Public Health Tracking and DEQ

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Environmental Public Health Tracking and DEQ

• Presentation to DEQ Air Quality Division
• April 16, 2008
• Curtis Cude Mandy Green
• Oregon Public Health Division

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Agenda

• EPHT 101
• DEQ/DHS partnership history and now
• Use of tracking network
• Project examples
• Vision for tracking in Oregon

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EPHT 101

• Origin in Pew Environmental Health Commission
  report
• Environmental health gap
• Environment/public health silos
• Most common environmental health hazards air
  water pollution
• Most common health effects asthma, cancer, lead
  poisoning

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Without a tracking program, environmental causes
of chronic diseases are hard to identify

• National tracking network
• 17 state/city projects, 14 million for first
  year of implementation (58 million since 2002)
• Oregon network
• Planning/implementation history
• Stakeholder involvement
• Pilot projects
• Network development

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EPHT

• Is a web-based, secure, distributed network of
  nationally consistent electronic health and
  environmental data
• Relies on data and information housed at state
  and local sites and within national-level data
  systems
• Provides access to hazard, exposure and health
  data and tools for environmental health analysis
• Supports tracking efforts by improving
  information, standardization, identification,
  access and analysis

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DEQ/DHS partnership

• MOU (2004) Spirit of cooperation between DHS
  and DEQ
• EPHT MOAs upport DEQ participation
• DEQ Liaison to EPHT
• Participation in advisory groups
• Data entry
• Pilot projects

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Use of tracking network

• Oregon public portal launch September 2008
• Data for initial release air quality, drinking
  water quality, childhood blood lead, asthma MI
  hospitalization, vital statistics and
  reproductive health outcomes, birth defects
• EPHT staff expertise
• Epidemiology, toxicology, health risk assessment,
  GIS

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Project examples 2005 Pilot

• PM 2.5 and 10 µm data DEQ (ORAQX)
• Meteorological Data NWS
• Asthma Data - OHSU
• Asthma and Cardiovascular Data - Medicaid
• Findings capability to bring datasets together
  need to bring in AQ models to link data

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Project examples 2008 Pilot

• Sutherlin area groundwater arsenic
• Collaboration with DHS Env. Health Assessment
  Program (EHAP), DHS Drinking Water, DEQ LEAD, DEQ
  IS Team
• Planning, sample and analysis, dataflow
  development, data and GIS analysis, outreach and
  communications
• Future?

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Information products of the Environmental Public
Health Tracking Network
Information as Currency
Community
Tools and Media
Researchers data stewards
Records
Tables
Subject matter experts
Charts, graphs, maps
Environmental public health scientists,
advocates, and interested public
Fact sheet, news release
Policy makers
Journals and publications
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Vision for tracking in Oregon

• Integration and communication about environmental
  health
• Freely available, useful information tools

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Vision for tracking in Oregon

• Greater understanding of links between
  environment and health
• Improved health for Oregon communities and
  residents

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Thanks and opportunities to get involved

• Thanks to
• Gregg Lande, DEQ
• Oregon EPHT staff
• For more about Oregon EPHT
• www.oregon.gov/dhs/ph/epht
• Sign up for Oregon EPHT news listserv
• http//listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/
  oregon_epht_news