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Utah Public Health Lab
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Environmental
Public Health Tracking Program (EPHTP)
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| The Environmental
Public Health Tracking Project (EPHTP) is part of the Environmental
Epidemiology Program (EEP) within the Utah Department of
Health (UDOH). The mission of the EPHTP is to develop a
state-wide standards-based, web-enabled Tracking Network
Information System (EPHTN-IS) in Utah to enable information
and knowledge dissemination and improve public health in
the realm of chronic diseases related to environmental factors.
This project is being conducted in collaboration with the
Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ), the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Local Health Departments
in Utah and other programs within the UDOH. The EPHTN-IS
will be a secure warehouse comprised of four kinds of data.
Those data are surveillance data about chronic diseases
that are occurring in Utah, environmental monitoring data
from the UDEQ, exposure data collected through biomonitoring
and supporting data (such as population data and geographic
reference data). The EPHTN-IS data warehouse links together
health outcome and environmental hazards data to inform
consumers, communities, public health practitioners, researchers,
and policymakers on chronic diseases, related environmental
hazards and population exposures. This will provide the
UDOH and UDEQ with the capacity to better understand, respond
to, and prevent chronic disease in Utah. Information generated
by this program will enable the UDOH and UDEQ to identify
populations at high risk in Utah, to examine health concerns
at the local level, to recognize related environmental factors,
and to establish and evaluate prevention strategies.
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