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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.
    • Assist states in the analysis and dissemination of lead surveillance data.
    • 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.