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Health-Track,
a national public health project, is launching an online
site to provide Americans information on cancer death
data and environmental toxins believed to be linked with
cancer. The site is being self-proclaimed as the first
of its kind, with maps of mortality rates for all major
cancers. Maps can be broken down into male/female
demographics, disease, and even city.
Using
statistics from the National Cancer Institute for eight
cancers: bladder, brain, breast, Hodgkin's disease,
leukemia, liver, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and prostate,
the color-coded maps shows red hot zones where cancer
deaths are in the top 20% nationwide. Users are also
able to pull up an overlay that highlights areas where
the Environmental Protection Agency has gotten reports
of carcinogenic chemicals that were released into the
environment by industries.
Health
Track, along with the Pew Environmental Health
Commission at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health is
working to find the link between chronic diseases and
environmental factors. They believe that this
information will help assist public health officials to
prevent illnesses, along with providing communities with
information to better protect themselves.
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Hodgkin's
Mortality Rate (USA)
courtesy
Health-Track.org |
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