Children's Environmental Health Indicators in Australia

Background: Adverse environmental exposures in early life increase the risk of <a title="Learn more about Chronic Disease" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/chronic-disease">chronic disease</a> but do not attract the attention nor recei...

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Autores principales:	J. Leith Sly, Sophie E. Moore, Fiona Gore, Marie Noel Brune, Maria Neira, Paul Jagals, Peter D. Sly
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Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2016
Materias:	physical injuries insect-borne disease diarrheal diseas esperinatal diseases respiratory diseases Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8a03b62125ca4470bbcb229acf4cadf22021-12-02T04:02:29ZChildren's Environmental Health Indicators in Australia2214-9996https://doaj.org/article/8a03b62125ca4470bbcb229acf4cadf22016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/1173https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996Background: Adverse environmental exposures in early life increase the risk of <a title="Learn more about Chronic Disease" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/chronic-disease">chronic disease</a> but do not attract the attention nor receive the public health priority warranted. A safe and healthy environment is essential for children's health and development, yet absent in many countries. A framework that aids in understanding the link between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes are environmental health indicators—numerical estimates of hazards and outcomes that can be applied at a population level. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a set of children's environmental health indicators (CEHI) for physical injuries, insect-borne disease, diarrheal diseases, perinatal diseases, and <a title="Learn more about Respiratory disease" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/respiratory-disease">respiratory diseases</a>; however, uptake of steps necessary to apply these indicators across the WHO regions has been incomplete. A first indication of such uptake is the management of data required to measure CEHI. Objectives: The present study was undertaken to determine whether Australia has accurate up-to-date, publicly available, and readily accessible data on each CEHI for indigenous and nonindigenous Australian children. Findings: Data were not readily accessible for many of the exposure indicators, and much of the available data were not child specific or were only available for Australia’s <a title="Learn more about Indigenous Population" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/indigenous-population">indigenous population</a>. Readily accessible data were available for all but one of the outcome indicators and generally for both indigenous and nonindigenous children. Although Australia regularly collects data on key national indicators of child health, development, and well-being in several domains mostly thought to be of more relevance to Australians and Australian policy makers, these differ substantially from the WHO CEHI. Conclusions: The present study suggests that the majority of these WHO exposure and outcome indicators are relevant and important for monitoring Australian children’s environmental health and establishing public health interventions at a local and national level and collection of appropriate data would inform <a title="Learn more about Public Health Policy" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/public-health-policy">public health policy</a> in Australia.J. Leith SlySophie E. MooreFiona GoreMarie Noel BruneMaria NeiraPaul JagalsPeter D. SlyUbiquity Pressarticlephysical injuriesinsect-borne diseasediarrheal diseasesperinatal diseasesrespiratory diseasesInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 82, Iss 1, Pp 156-168 (2016)
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spellingShingle	physical injuries insect-borne disease diarrheal diseas esperinatal diseases respiratory diseases Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 J. Leith Sly Sophie E. Moore Fiona Gore Marie Noel Brune Maria Neira Paul Jagals Peter D. Sly Children's Environmental Health Indicators in Australia
description	Background: Adverse environmental exposures in early life increase the risk of <a title="Learn more about Chronic Disease" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/chronic-disease">chronic disease</a> but do not attract the attention nor receive the public health priority warranted. A safe and healthy environment is essential for children's health and development, yet absent in many countries. A framework that aids in understanding the link between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes are environmental health indicators—numerical estimates of hazards and outcomes that can be applied at a population level. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a set of children's environmental health indicators (CEHI) for physical injuries, insect-borne disease, diarrheal diseases, perinatal diseases, and <a title="Learn more about Respiratory disease" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/respiratory-disease">respiratory diseases</a>; however, uptake of steps necessary to apply these indicators across the WHO regions has been incomplete. A first indication of such uptake is the management of data required to measure CEHI. Objectives: The present study was undertaken to determine whether Australia has accurate up-to-date, publicly available, and readily accessible data on each CEHI for indigenous and nonindigenous Australian children. Findings: Data were not readily accessible for many of the exposure indicators, and much of the available data were not child specific or were only available for Australia’s <a title="Learn more about Indigenous Population" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/indigenous-population">indigenous population</a>. Readily accessible data were available for all but one of the outcome indicators and generally for both indigenous and nonindigenous children. Although Australia regularly collects data on key national indicators of child health, development, and well-being in several domains mostly thought to be of more relevance to Australians and Australian policy makers, these differ substantially from the WHO CEHI. Conclusions: The present study suggests that the majority of these WHO exposure and outcome indicators are relevant and important for monitoring Australian children’s environmental health and establishing public health interventions at a local and national level and collection of appropriate data would inform <a title="Learn more about Public Health Policy" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/public-health-policy">public health policy</a> in Australia.
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Children's Environmental Health Indicators in Australia

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