1 National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Beijing, China.
2 Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, Environmental Health Tracking Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Apr;127(4):44501. doi: 10.1289/EHP4319.
Many developed countries use environmental public health tracking to gain a better understanding of the link between environmental hazards and public health. To respond to complicated environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), has begun to build a Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking (CEPHT) system. On behalf of the CEPHT, authors provide insight into the CEPHT's development, current status, and future plans. In the initial stage of CEPHT, an indicator framework linking environment and public health that included a list of publicly available data sources regarding environmental hazards, public health outcomes, and risk factors in China was developed. An analysis of data availability, along with a comparison between CEPHT's indicator system and other tracking networks, revealed the existence of barriers and gaps in data integration that affect China's ability to track environmental public health. The lack of access to data, combined with inadequate data quality, has led to difficulties linking environmental hazards to their effects on public health. Current CEPHT efforts will help integrate environmental factors and exposure data with public health outcomes. For the near future, CEPHT plans to focus on increasing collaboration among data tracking agencies, improving data quality, and expanding proper data sharing. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319.
许多发达国家利用环境公共卫生追踪来更好地了解环境危害与公众健康之间的联系。为了应对复杂的环境健康问题，中国疾病预防控制中心环境与健康相关产品安全所（NIEH）开始建立中国环境公共卫生追踪（CEPHT）系统。本文代表 CEPHT 系统，深入探讨了其发展、现状和未来规划。在 CEPHT 的初始阶段，开发了一个将环境和公共卫生联系起来的指标框架，其中包括中国环境危害、公共卫生结果和风险因素的公开可用数据源列表。对数据可用性的分析以及 CEPHT 指标系统与其他追踪网络之间的比较，揭示了数据集成中存在的障碍和差距，这影响了中国追踪环境公共卫生的能力。缺乏获取数据的机会，再加上数据质量不足，导致难以将环境危害与其对公共健康的影响联系起来。目前 CEPHT 的工作将有助于整合环境因素和暴露数据与公共卫生结果。在不久的将来，CEPHT 计划专注于增加数据追踪机构之间的合作、提高数据质量和扩大适当的数据共享。https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4319.
