PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE
PANAMA CITY, BAY COUNTY, FLORIDA
ATSDR recognizes that infants and children may be more sensitive to environmental exposure than adults in communities faced with contamination of their water, soil, air, or food. This sensitivity is a result of the following factors: (1) children are more likely to be exposed to certain media (e.g., soil or surface water) because they play outdoors more often than adults; (2) children are shorter than adults, which means that they can breathe dust, soil, and vapors close to the ground; and (3) children are smaller and exposure results in higher doses of chemical exposure per body weight. Children can sustain permanent damage if these factors lead to toxic exposure during critical growth stages. ATSDR is committed to evaluating the special interests at sites such as TAFB as part of the ATSDR Child Health Initiative.
ATSDR evaluated the likelihood that children living on TAFB may have been or may be exposed to contaminants at levels of health concern. Based on the evaluation of the exposure pathways discussed in Section II, ATSDR did not identify any situations in which children were likely to be or have been exposed to chemical contaminants at levels of health concern. However, the potential migration of landfill gas from the Wherry Landfill to houses in the Bay View housing area is a data gap TAFB has said they will investigate.
ATSDR conducts a review of existing health outcome data (e.g., birth and death certificates, birth defects registries, cancer registries), when available, if people have been exposed to site contaminants or if the community has concerns related to specific health outcomes. The evaluation of health outcome data may give a general picture of the health of a community, or it may confirm the presence of excess disease or illness in a community. However, elevated rates of a particular disease may not necessarily be caused by hazardous substances in the environment. Other factors, such as personal habits, socioeconomic status, and occupation, also may influence the development of disease. In contrast, even if elevated rates of disease are not found, a contaminant may still have caused illness or disease.
At TAFB, ATSDR did not review health outcome data because the exposures identified were at levels that would not be expected to cause adverse health effects.
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