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Now Available for Review and Public Comment

Identifying Exposure Pathways

This online learning program explains how ATSDR identifies how people come into contact with hazardous substances (e.g., how they become exposed) through different environmental media.

The learn-by-doing simulation program is now available for public comment through November 3, 2003. Comments received will be used to improve this program and others that might be developed in the future.

It is hoped that this program will provide public health professionals and members of the public with an interesting and enjoyable way of learning more about ATSDR's public health assessment process, how they can participate in the process, and ultimately how they can work with ATSDR and state health assessors to better protect public health.

Comments already received during pilot testing have led us to enhance the online training. After the comment period ends, we plan to add an interactive scoping checklist to the course so that persons who complete it will learn the following:

  1. what steps to take when investigating a waste site or release,
  2. who needs to be contacted as part of the health assessment process,
  3. what information is needed before conducting a site visit,
  4. what information is needed to determine whether exposure had occurred or is occurring, and
  5. how the collected information should be used to identify possible “completed pathways of exposure.”

Thank you for reviewing this program. We welcome your comments.

You may send your comments through the Comments link in the program or e-mail them to lwooten@cdc.gov.

Click to begin program.

 


This page was last updated on September 11, 2003.
Lateefah Wooten / LWooten@cdc.gov
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