Healthy People/THOMAS

Healthy People 2010

Goal: Promote health for all through a healthy environment.

8-29 Global Environmental Health
Reduce the global burden of disease due to poor water quality, sanitation, and personal and domestic hygiene.

Target: 2,135,000 deaths.

Baseline: 2,668,200 deaths worldwide were attributable to these factors in 1990.

Target setting method: 20 percent improvement.

Data source: World Health Report 2003, World Health Organization.

According to the Progress Quotient Chart, the global burden of disease has been reduced. It has been moved 161% to elimating disease and it has passed the 100% of improvement they were hoping for.

Progress: Progress has been made from Global Deaths from poor sanitation. It exceeded the target, achieving 161 percent of its targeted change.

Disparities: Data was unavailable or not applicable.

Opportunites and Challenges:

• The Health House program is an example of a national education program intended to raise standards for better indoor environments



• EPA is using education and nonregulatory approaches to address indoor air pollution.



• The HUD Healthy Homes Initiative supports:

~Activities that focus on researching and demonstrating low-cost, effective home hazard assessment and intervention methods.

~Public education that emphasizes ways in which communities can mitigate housing-related hazards.

Emerging Issues: (General-loosely related to my topic of Global Environmental Health)~Water supply- more people will face water quality and quantity problems because of worldwide water shortages, especially in developing countries.

~Increased international travel and improvements in telecommunications and computer technology are making the world a smaller place.

~Allergens/ Toxins in the Household

Related Bill from THOMAS:

Title: H.R.1031 : To promote a better health information system. (#44)

Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/12/2009) Cosponsors (None) Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means

Latest Major Action: 2/12/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Recommendation: I would recommend that we start by informing people on health information so that they can protect themselves and better there environment.

Vote: Yes
My Political Representative:

Jim Oberstar

Democratic/Farmer/Labor

Washington D.C. Office

2365 Rayburn HOB Washington, D.C. 20515

Phone: (202) 225-6211 Duluth Office 231

Federal BuildingDuluth, MN 55802

Phone: (218) 727-7474