Title: Improving childhood blood lead level screening, reporting, and surveillance in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Description: Lead poisoning remains a serious, preventable environmental health threat to young children, and its elimination is a key goal of U.S. public health policy. This report focuses on screening, reporting, and surveillance of childhood blood lead levels in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, through a review of relevant literature, state and county reporting and surveillance databases, and interviews and focus groups.
Subjects: Infant, Statistics, Program Evaluation, Mass Screening, Epidemiology, Medical screening, Blood, Safety Management, Child, Lead poisoning in children, Lead Poisoning, Prevention, Children, united states
Places: Pennsylvania, Allegheny County