Can lessons from public health disease surveillance be applied to environmental public health tracking? A experiência de vigilância epidemiológica poderia ser aplicada à vigilância no campo da saúde ambiental?
Disease surveillance has a century-long tradition in public health, and environmental data have been collected at a national level by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for several decades. Recently, the CDC announced an initiative to develop a environmental public health tracking (EPHT) netwo...
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Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva
2006-12-01
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Series: | Ciência & Saúde Coletiva |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232006000400024 |