J Public Health Manag Pract
September 2024
Context: Federal law requires property owners to disclose the presence of known lead-based paint and/or lead hazards to potential home buyers and renters in homes built before 1978.
Objective: Using 2015-2016 randomized survey data, we measured lead and radon knowledge, awareness, and exposure avoidance practices.
Setting: Home buyers from 4 US states (Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Ohio).
Int J Environ Res Public Health
May 2022
Introduction: Prevalence surveys conducted in geographically small areas such as towns, zip codes, neighborhoods or census tracts are a valuable tool for estimating the extent to which environmental risks contribute to children's blood lead levels (BLLs). Population-based, cross-sectional small area prevalence surveys assessing BLLs can be used to establish a baseline lead exposure prevalence for a specific geographic region.
Materials And Methods: The required statistical methods, biological and environmental sampling, supportive data, and fieldwork considerations necessary for public health organizations to rapidly conduct child blood lead prevalence surveys at low cost using small area, cluster sampling methodology are described.
Background: Local, state, and national childhood blood lead surveillance is based on healthcare providers and clinical laboratories reporting test results to public health departments. Increased interest in detecting blood lead level (BLL) patterns and changes of potential public health significance in a timely manner has highlighted the need for surveillance systems to rapidly detect and investigate these events.
Objective: Decrease the time to detect changes in surveillance patterns by using an alerting algorithm developed and assessed through historical child blood lead surveillance data analysis.
In 2017, Puerto Rico sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Maria, increasing the risk of fires and carbon monoxide (CO) poisonings. Using a population-based, in-person survey of households with children less than 6 years old in Puerto Rico, we collected data in 2010 concerning the presence of smoke alarms and CO alarms in these households. We generated national estimates by extrapolating the number of households in each stratum using data from the 2010 Census.
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