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... The limited extent of interdisciplinary cooperation has restricted the ability of scientists and public health workers to solve a range of complex environmental health problems, with the result that the considerable potential for increased knowledge at the interface of earth science and public health has been only partially realized and opportunities for improved population health have been threatened. In response to this situation, the National Science Foundation, U.S.
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... improved risk-based hazard mitigation, based on improved understanding of the public health effects of natural hazards under existing and future climatic regimes; and (3) research to understand the health risks arising from disturbance of terrestrial systems as the basis for prevention of new exposures.
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... Earth Material Exposure Assessments -- Understanding Fate and Transport Assessment of human exposure to hazards in the environment is often the weakest link in most human health risk assessments. The physical, chemical, and biological processes that create, modify, or alter the transport and bioavailability of natural or anthropogenically generated earth materials remain difficult to quantify, and a vastly improved understanding of the spatial and geochemical attributes of potentially deleterious earth materials is a critical requirement for effective and efficient mitigation of the risk posed by such materials.
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... • Determining the health effects associated with water quality changes induced by novel technologies and other strategies currently being implemented, or planned, for extending groundwater and surface water supplies to meet increasing demands for water by a growing world population. PROMOTING COLLABORATION Geospatial information -- geological maps for earth scientists and epidemiological data for public health professionals -- is an essential integrative tool that is fundamental to the activities of both communities.
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... To address this, it will be necessary for all data collected by federal, state, and county agencies to be geocoded and geographically referenced to the finest scale possible, and artificial barriers to spatial analysis resulting from privacy concerns need to be modified to ensure that the enormous power of modern spatial analysis techniques can be applied to public health issues without affecting privacy. Although important gains have been made within individual funding agencies toward support for interdisciplinary research, a dearth of collaboration and funding between agencies has restricted significant scientific discovery at the interface of public health and earth science.
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Key Terms

  • earth materials
  • improved understanding
  • health communities
  • health risks
  • spatial analysis

  • hazard mitigation
  • health research
  • earth sciences
  • earth processes
  • health disciplines

  • beneficial health
  • health impacts
  • research priority
  • modern spatial
  • potentially hazardous

  • natural hazards
  • considerable potential
  • analysis techniques
  • risks arising
  • future climatic

  • exposure pathway
  • climatic regimes
  • increased knowledge
  • natural earth
  • individual earth

  • existing health
  • anthropogenic earth
  • earth components
  • deleterious earth
  • earth perturbations


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