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9 Collaborative Research Priorities
9 Collaborative Research Priorities
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9 Collaborative Research Priorities H uman health depends on both intrinsic characteristics and exter nal biotic or abiotic environmental exposures that may occur via the pathways of air, water, food, or contact. Although many adverse exposures stem from anthropogenic disturbances of the natural environment, others come directly from natural sources near or at the earth's surface.
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For the most part, government agencies have failed to adequately promote the necessary integration of the earth and health sciences. The committee is convinced that substantial improvements in public health can be achieved as a result of increased collaboration between the earth science and public health communities.
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142 EARTH MATERIALS AND HEALTH inhalation of complex mixtures of pathogens and chemical and biochemical species in airborne pollution require detailed geological investigations of earth sources and the identification of atmospheric pathways to sites of bioaccessibility and potential ingestion by humans. The anticipation and prevention of health effects caused by earth-sourced air pollution prior to the onset of illness require quantitative knowledge of the geospatial context of earth materials and related disease vectors.
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143 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PRIORITIES and antagonistic interactions of contaminants with naturally occurring substances in water, and similar interactions among multiple naturally occurring substances or multiple contaminants, also pose priority research questions. Improved Risk-Based Hazard Mitigation Natural earth processes -- including earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanoes -- continue to cause numerous deaths and immense suffering worldwide.
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The following recommendations to facilitate research across the disciplinary boundaries are those the committee believes can realistically be implemented, particularly in the constrained fiscal environment that is likely to apply. Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis Spatial attributes describe the distribution of natural earth materials and processes and the distribution of infectious and noninfectious diseases.
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format so that public health problems can be correlated with earth science parameters. Interagency Support for Interdisciplinary Earth and Public Health Sciences Research The value of interdisciplinary research has been convincingly and repeatedly described (e.g., NRC, 2004d)
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146 EARTH MATERIALS AND HEALTH health research to produce major societal benefits has led the committee to conclude that multiagency funding for collaborative research will achieve greater disease prevention than will traditional single-agency funding. The committee recommends that -- in order to achieve the innovative research at the intersection of public health and earth science required for societal benefit and protection -- the intellectual and fiscal resources presently existing within a number of agencies should be reallocated to a shared interagency pool to support an interdisciplinary public health and earth science initiative.
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