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USPHS Scientific and Training Symposium Environmental Health Officer Session

USPHS Scientific and Training Symposium Environmental Health Officer Session. CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute May 25, 2010 San Diego, CA. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health. Environmental Health Services Branch.

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USPHS Scientific and Training Symposium Environmental Health Officer Session

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  1. USPHS Scientific and Training SymposiumEnvironmental Health Officer Session CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute May 25, 2010 San Diego, CA

  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health Environmental Health Services Branch

  3. Achievements of Public Health • Vaccinations • Motor-vehicle safety • Safer workplaces • Control of infectious diseases • Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke • Safe and healthier food • Healthier mothers and babies • Family planning • Fluoridation of drinking water • Recognition of tobacco use as a health issue

  4. Accomplishments Brookings Institute – Governments’ Greatest Achievements of the Past Half-Century • Control of Disease • Improved Air and Water Quality • Food and Drinking Water Safety

  5. Challenge • Environmental antecedents to disease outbreak and emergence • Global climate change • Global economies, migration and trade • Urban to rural and rural to urban • Alternate forms of energy

  6. Challenge United States Infant Mortality per 1000 Live Births and International Rank 1960: 26.0 (12) 2003: 6.9 (28)

  7. Health Disparity Challenge Infant Mortality / 1000 Live Births 2001-2003 All Races = 6.9 White = 5.7 Black or African American = 13.6 Hispanic or Latino = 5.6 American Indian or Alaska Native = 9.0 Asian or Pacific Islander = 4.8

  8. Challenge America’s Environmental Health Gap Environmental connection to disease not understood; fragmentation of public health system hinders response and action

  9. Challenge Rebuilding the Utility of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21ST Century ..the local infrastructure for delivering environmental health is not working.

  10. CDC’s EHS Strategy • 31 external workgroups participated in development • Over 150 organizations provided comments • Partners include private and public organizations from all levels including tribal • 6 major goals with objectives and activities

  11. EPHLI Objective Enhance and strengthen the national environmental public health services delivery system by strengthening the leadership capabilities of the environmental public health workforce.

  12. Understanding Environmental Systems Water System Food System Air Health Outcomes Sewage System Vector/animal Influence Solid Waste Disposal

  13. Police EMS Corrections MCOs Health Department Philanthropist Churches Community Centers Nursing Homes Home Health Parks Doctors Schools Elected Officials Hospitals Mass Transit Environmental Health Civic Groups CHCs Fire Tribal Health Employers Laboratory Facilities Economic Development Drug Treatment Mental Health The Public Health System

  14. Understanding Systems • A group of interacting, interrelated, or independent elements forming a complex whole • A system is defined by the specific purpose it serves within a larger system

  15. Science of Complex Systems • Determines how parts of a system influence the collective behavior of the system and how systems interact • Understand parts, the whole and relationships

  16. CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute • Year-long learning experience • All expenses paid • 2 onsite seminars • All other work / learning done by teleconferencing, internet and electronic means • All educational materials provided by program

  17. Building teams and partnerships • Persuading, influencing, and generating support • Systems thinking • Problem-solving and decision-making processes • Project – Outcome measure

  18. Long-term Outcomes • Enhance leadership capabilities of environmental public health service providers • Improve the practice of environmental health • Reduce exposure to environmental public health risk factors

  19. Long-term Outcomes • Reduce environmentally related morbidity and mortality • Improve the health of the population • Reduce health care expenditures

  20. Long-term Outcomes Opportunity for environmental public health leader to interact and create a lasting network of leaders who will be instrumental in influencing the future direction of environmental public health.

  21. Thank you for your attention

  22. Solving Problems Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current pattern of thought. Albert Einstein

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