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Routine data collection efforts are a necessary, often underappreciated, component of nearly all cancer research and prevention efforts. Public health cancer surveillance data are crucial for identifying needs, planning interventions, directing public health resources, and evaluating the overall effectiveness of initiatives aimed at preventing or treating cancer and its negative health consequences. As the nation's health protection agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides resources for disease surveillance systems to help protect our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, including cancer. Therefore, public health surveillance is a core function of CDC. In this article we briefly describe CDC's approach to cancer surveillance in our public health programs and other federal initiatives to monitor cancer-related outcomes. We also describe our premier cancer incidence surveillance system, the National Program of Cancer Registries, and discuss uses and applications of the program's critical cancer data.
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Database portal for science-based, 10-year national objectives resulting from a multiyear process that reflects input from a diverse group of individuals and organizations for improving the health of all Americans. 2020 Topics & Objectives are available in an A-Z format. DATA2020, the Healthy People 2020 interactive data tool, allows users to explore the data and technical information related to the Healthy People 2020 objectives. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to: * Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors. * Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions. * Measure the impact of prevention activities. Healthy People 2020 strives to: * Identify nationwide health improvement priorities. * Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress. * Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State, and local levels. * Engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge. * Identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs.
View all literature mentionsThe goal of environmental public health tracking is to protect communities by providing information to federal, state, and local agencies. These agencies, in turn, will use this information to plan, apply, and evaluate public health actions to prevent and control environmentally related diseases. Environmental public health tracking is the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, and interpretation of data about the following factors: :- Environmental hazards :- Exposure to environmental hazards :- Health effects potentially related to exposure to environmental hazards CDC''s goal is to develop a tracking system that integrates data about environmental hazards and exposures with data about diseases that are possibly linked to the environment. This system will allow federal, state, and local agencies, and others to do the following: :- monitor and distribute information about environmental hazards and disease trends :- advance research on possible linkages between environmental hazards and disease :- develop, implement, and evaluate regulatory and public health actions to prevent or control environment-related diseases. Planning for an environmental public health tracking network is an important priority for CDC because of the opportunity it provides to address some of the most challenging problems facing local, state, and national public health leaders. From the outset, this activity has involved substantial collaboration between CDC and its public health and environmental partners (e.g., see the memorandum of understanding between HHS/CDC and the Environmental Protection Agency). Sponsors: This resource is supported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Keywords: Environment, Public, Health, Disease, Analysis, Integration, Data, Hazard, Health, Prevention,
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