Inclusion of Drinking Water Source and Testing Questions into Electronic Medical Records: Advancing Environmental Medicine and Public Health Outreach in New Jersey.
J Public Health Manag Pract
; 30(4): E184-E187, 2024.
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ABSTRACT
Chronic arsenic exposure is associated with adverse health outcomes, and early life exposure is particularly damaging. Households with pregnant people and young children drinking from unregulated wells in arsenic-prevalent regions are therefore a public health priority for outreach and intervention. A partnership between Columbia University, New Jersey government partners, and Hunterdon Healthcare has informed Hunterdon County residents of the risks faced from drinking arsenic-contaminated water and offered free well testing through a practice-based water test kit distribution and an online patient portal outreach. Encouraged by those successes, Hunterdon Healthcare incorporated questions about drinking water source and arsenic testing history into the electronic medical record (EMR) template used by most primary care practices in Hunterdon County. The new EMR fields allow for additional targeting of risk-based outreach and water test kit distribution, offering promising new opportunities for public health and environmental medicine outreach, surveillance, and research.
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Água Potável
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Saúde Pública
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Registros Eletrônicos de Saúde
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En
Ano de publicação:
2024
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