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CDC Childhood Lead
Poisoning
Surveillance |
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| Objectives:
Childhood lead
poisoning surveillance programs at states:
- Estimate the extent of elevated
blood-lead levels among children.
- Assess the follow-up of children with
elevated blood-lead levels.
- Examine potential sources of lead
exposure.
- Help allocate resources for lead
poisoning prevention activities.
Childhood lead poisoning surveillance
program at CDC:
- Assist states in developing
laboratory-based surveillance systems for blood lead levels among children. CDC provides
support for surveillance activities alone or in conjunction with prevention activities.
For information on how to apply for CDC funds, please see the expired FY 2001 announcement for State and Community-based
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs and Surveillance of Blood Lead Levels in
Children- Notice of Availability of Funds for Fiscal Year 2001.
- Assist states in the analysis and
dissemination of lead surveillance data. The Council of State and Territorial
Epidemiologists (CSTE) has prepared a State Resource and Publication Guide that includes analyses
and publications by states using their lead surveillance for prevention program
management.
- The Lead
listserv is maintained by CDC to enable people in state health departments who work at
building childhood blood lead surveillance systems to communicate with one another about
issues in lead surveillance data collection.
- Assemble data from state systems to form
a national surveillance database.
- Provide development and support of STELLAR, a software application used to track medical and
environmental activities in lead poisoning cases.
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