Description
This map shows the percentage of children that reside in each New York State county, excluding New York City, who were tested for lead and identified for the first time within the specified time period to have elevated concentrations of lead in their blood. An elevated blood lead concentration of ≥ 10 mcg/dL is defined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the level requiring public health intervention. Under current NYS Public Health Law and implementing regulations, health care providers are required to test all children for lead at or around age one year and again at or around age two years. Health care providers are also required to assess all children age six months to 72 months of age at least once annually for lead exposure, with blood lead testing for all children found to be at risk, based on those assessments. For more information, check out: http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/. The "About" tab contains additional details concerning this dataset.
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- lead, environmental, children, environmental health, community health and chronic disease, consumer resources
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Licensing and Attribution
- Data Provided By
- New York State Department of Health
- Source Link
- http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/
Dataset Information
- Agency
- Health, Department of
Dataset Summary
- Time Period
- Beginning 2003
- Posting Frequency
- Annually
- Dataset Owner
- Center for Environmental Health
- Coverage
- Statewide, excluding New York City.
- Granularity
- Zip Code
- Units
- Number of children less than 18 years of age
- Organization
- Office of Public Health
- Data Frequency
- Annually
Disclaimers
- Limitations
- The data set excludes any zip codes which were missing or invalid, and all NYC zip codes which are not available.
Notes
- Notes
- A child is defined as any individual less than 18 years of age at the time the blood was collected for the lead test. Zip codes with less than 6 incidence cases and zip codes with fewer than 30 total tests are nulled to protect patient confidentiality.
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