Priority Area: Healthy Environment
Protecting Human Health in Our Environment
There are many ways to define a healthy environment. It includes the air we breath, our water, our food and our surroundings. It's the chemicals, radiation and microbes as well as the physical world that we have contact with everyday. The environment's effect on our health is complicated, but there is sufficient knowledge from decades of research to take action in reducing environmental hazards.
Objectives
Each community's progress towards reaching these Prevention Agenda Objectives will be tracked so members can see how close each community is to meeting the objectives.
- By the year 2013, reduce New York's incidence of elevated lead levels in children and in adults in the workforce so that:
- The incidence of children aged < 72 months with a confirmed blood lead level of > 10ug/dl (per 100 children tested) is 0. Baseline: 1.7 per 100 children tested, Childhood Lead Program data, New York State excluding New York City 2001-2003.*
- The incidence of elevated blood lead levels (>25 ug/dl) per 100,000 employed persons ages 16+ is 0. Baseline: 6.4 per 100,000 employed persons 16+, New York State Heavy Metals Registry, 2003-2005.*
- The age-adjusted asthma hospitalization rate is no more than 16.7 per 10,000. Baseline: 22.2 per 10,000, SPARCS, 2003-2005.(Healthy People 2010 objective not available for total population - twenty-five percent reduction from 2003-05 baseline.)
- The asthma hospitalization rate among children (ages 0-17) is no more than 17.3 per 10,000. Baseline: 34.1 per 10,000, SPARCS, 2003-2005 (Healthy People 2010 objective)
* Healthy People 2010 Objective
Asthma
Lead in the Home
Occupational Health
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Center for Environmental HealthNew York State Department of Health
547 River Street, Room 316
Troy, NY 12180
Environmental Health Information Line: 1-800-458-1158
CEHEDUC@health.state.ny.us