[CPEO-MEF] health tracking system

[Steve@miltoxproj.org]

Friday's Greenwire (a paid online environmental news service) included the
following clip from a story on a new report:
Establishing a nationwide health-tracking network that could provide possible
links between chronic diseases and environmental factors would give the
federal government significant savings in health care costs, according to a
new report by the Public Health Foundation. 

The report, commissioned by Health-Track, a project of the Pew Charitable
Trusts, says that for every dollar spent on a program that tracks when and
where chronic diseases occur and links them to possible environmental causes,
the federal government would receive $1.44 in reduced health care costs. 

Many people have suggested the need for such a system to help track health
effects that may be caused by military environmental practices.

The entire report can be found at Health-Track's web site at
http://health-track.org/reports/phf0809/
The site also includes an interactive map comparing cancer rates to Toxic
Release Inventory emissions and hazardous air pollutants.

Steve

Steve Taylor
National Organizer
Military Toxics Project
(207) 783-5091

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