Impact/Purpose:

The objectives of this research are:1) To develop and present state level environmental health outcome indicators that measure changes over time; and 2) To apply environmental health outcome indicators to evaluate the impact of environmental policies on population exposures and health risks. The research will address the EPA STAR special interest in examining the relationship between environmental health and exposure indicators and environmental risk management and policy decisions implemented at both the national and state level. The principal hypothesis to be tested is that federal and state risk management policies initiated over the past three decades have resulted in measurable reductions in pollution, exposure and population health risk.

Description:

The overarching goal of this research is to develop state level indicators of environmental pollution, population exposure, and population health risks. The investigation will include a longitudinal analysis of changes over time that will provide a framework for evaluating the environmental and public health impacts of environmental policies and address the fundamental question “Have our environmental policies worked?”

Record Details:

Record Type:PROJECT( ABSTRACT )

Start Date:10/01/2008

Completion Date:09/30/2011

Record ID: 201524

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Role :OWNER

Organization Name :JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Mailing Address :3400 N Charles St

Citation :Baltimore

State :MD

Zip Code :21218

Project Information:

Approach :

The work will be a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins University and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). A subset of the EPA national indicators will be selected and a longitudinal analysis of NJDEP historical and ongoing monitoring data bases will be conducted. Candidate indicators include organic contaminants in drinking water, PCBs and mercury in fish, benzene in ambient air, and industrial emissions of each selected pollutant. The approach includes four steps: 1) data inventory and analysis to select indicators and related risk management policies; 2) population exposure characterization; 3) health risk characterization; and 4) policy impact analysis.

Cost :$499,961.00

Research Component :Health Effects

Project IDs:

ID Code :R833991

Project type :EPA Grant