[CPEO-BIF] Post-disaster health monitoring

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Post-disaster health risks weighed

SUSAN KIM
Disaster News Network Current News
March 4, 2006

BALTIMORE — Responders are weighing whether post-disaster illnesses need 
to be better tracked.

If people get sick after visiting or returning to a disaster area, 
health officials recommend they see their doctor, then report the 
illness to their local or state health department. Ideally, states lift 
significant ailment trends up to the Centers for Disease Control.

For workers who get sick in a disaster zone, illness and injury data is 
collected on a national level by the Occupational Safety and Health 
Organization (OSHA).

But those data checkpoints are not the same as a national reporting 
system dedicated to a specific disaster, pointed out Dr. Roger Boe, 
consultant for the United Methodist Fellowship of Health Care Volunteers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articleid=3075

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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