ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INDICATORS
FOR THE U.S. - MEXICO BORDER
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Adapted following presentation to members of the Environmental Health Working Group, El Paso, Texas July 26-27, 2001


Prepared by:

Pierre Gosselin MD MPH, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on environmental and occupational health impact assessment and surveillance at CHUQ

 Chris Furgal PhD, CHUQ Research Center

 Alfonso Ruiz, DVM, MS, PhD, Chief, El Paso Field Office, PAHO

Index

    Page
  Acknowledgements.............................................................................................. 1
  Collaborators....................................................................................................... 2
  Mandate.............................................................................................................. 3
  Preface................................................................................................................ 4
1.0 Introduction: Environmental Public Health Indicators for the U.S. - Mexico Border Region.................................................................................................................. 5
2.0 Defining Environmental Health and Environmental Health Indicators....................... 6
3.0 Frameworks for Indicator Identification and Selection........................................... 9
4.0 Indicators and Program Objectives....................................................................... 12
5.0 Defining the Audience(s)...................... ................................................................ 16
6.0 Considering Scales .............................................................................................. 17
7.0 Criteria for Indicators: Selecting the right ones....................................................... 18
8.0 Choosing a Set of Core Indicators........................................................................ 20
9.0 Core Environmental Public Health Indicators for the U.S. - Mexico Border Region.................................................................................................................
22
10.0 Results of the El Paso Workshop: A Draft Listof Core Indicators.......................... 23
11.0 References........................................................................................................... 30
     
  List of Tables  
  Table1. Retained indicators following initial review and scoring by participants
at the El Paso Wokshop, July 26 -27, 2001.........................................................
24
  Table 2. Draft list of core environmental public health indicators for the
U.S. - Mexico Border region as developed at the El Paso Workshop, July 26 -27 2001...................................................................................................................

27
     
  List of Figures  
  Figure 1. Examples of Commonly Use Frameworks for Indicator Organization
( adapted from Eyles and Furgal, 2000 )...............................................................
9
 

Figure 2. The Driving Forces, Pressure, State, Exposure, Effect, Action ( DPSEEA )
model of WHO ( WHO, 1995:5 )............................................................................
10
     
  Lista de Anexos  
  Appendix A: Matrix of Environmental Public Health Indicators for first round of
scoring and review...................................................................................................
32
  Appendix B: Matrix of Environmental Public Health Indicator for second round
of scoring and review...............................................................................................
33
  Appendix C: List of participants at the El Paso Workshop, July 26-27, 2001 ........... 34