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CDC’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network adds pesticide exposure and prospective climate data
Outin YR . J Environ Health 2014 77 (3) 34-36 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) expands content and functionality every year. This year, two new datasets were added: pesticide exposure and 70 years of prospective climate data. These represent two important environmental public health concerns. In 2012, pesticides were the 10th leading cause of poisoning exposure reported to poison control centers in the U.S. (Mowry, Spyker, Cantilena, Bailey, & Ford, 2013). Understanding how and where pesticide exposures are happening can inform public health interventions and public education on the dangers of using these chemicals inappropriately. Extreme heat events, or heat waves, are one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the U.S. Climate experts are particularly confident that climate change will bring increasingly frequent and severe heat waves and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels. These changes have the potential to affect human health in several direct and indirect ways, some of them severe. |
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