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JSM 2002 Abstract #301577
Activity Number: 70
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 12, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics & the Environment*
Abstract - #301577
Title: Investigating Cancer Mortality and Environmental Statistics on Toxic Releases: A Geographical Information Analysis
Author(s): Margaret Conomos*+ and Ruth Allen and Rashmi Lal and Maryann Suero
Affiliation(s): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Address: 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 2842), Washington, District of Columbia, 20460,
Keywords: cancer mortality ; spatial statistics ; environment ; toxic releases ; exploratory data analysis ; geographical information analysis
Abstract:

The objective is to investigate childhood cancer mortality and toxic release statistics in the Midwest, using innovative geographical information and exploratory analyses. The methods are being developed to meet the needs of environmental indicators development project, to better integrate health and environmental data for schools initiatives and to meet public and community groups requests to take fuller advantage of pollution prevention opportunities. The environmental statistics come from the counties with the highest rates of childhood cancer over more than 40 years and from toxic release data spanning more that a decade. Particular care is given to caveats and data quality for the time period of comparable health and environmental statistics. Environmental indicators are selected based on chemicals with known carcinogenic, genotoxic, immunotoxic, and bioaccumulation potential, without regard to assumptions on direct cause and effect. The focus is on developing geographically specific tools to highlight prevention opportunities. Overall, the project fosters better integration of health and environmental statistics for addressing multiple community and stakeholder concerns.


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