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As early as 1988, the Institute of Medicine
noted that the removal of authority for environmental health from public
health agencies had resulted in a fragmentation of responsibility and lack
of attention to the health problems potentially caused by environmental
influences. In 2001, the Pew Environmental Health Commission called for the
creation of a national environmental health tracking network to address the
need for the systematic surveillance of environmental exposures and related
disease outcomes. |