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METRICS WORKGROUP
January 8, 2013Washington, DC
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Working Group Charge1. Explore common metrics and indicators and existing
research, as well as new research opportunities, linking environmental health conditions in schools to children’s health and academic performance
2. Identify research questions, existing data sets, and what data are needed regarding pediatric environmental health and exposures in schools
3. Develop a white paper summarizing the state of the art in metrics and surveillance and identifying gaps for future action and research by federal agencies and other organizations
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Children’s Health Policy Recommendations
Develop a coordinated federal strategy for the states to help their schools rapidly improve facility design, construction, and maintenance
Set up programs to test and remediate for hazards and to phase in safer products
Develop a systematic means for collecting information about exposures in the school setting
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Children’s Health Policy Recommendations
Build the capacity of agencies such as EPA, CDC and state authorities to respond to and evaluate risks to children’s health that occur in school settings.
Implement an environmental public health tracking system in sentinel school systems
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Childrens Health Policy Recommendations
Adequately fund research so that standards for indoor environmental quality for vulnerable children in school settings can be promulgated
Encourage the development of enforceable state regulations regarding indoor environmental quality
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Childrens Health Policy Recommendations
Identify an appropriate state level agency for oversight and enforcement
Engage private sector organizations like PEHSUs to facilitate on site inspections of child care centers and schools
Review and publish school closures that have occurred for health and safety reasons
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Childrens Health Policy Recommendations
Determine if current laws and regulations are sufficient for protection of public health and make recommendations for improvement
Adapt guidelines for states to use to allow access to federal, state and local laws and regulations and pest practices related to schools
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Childrens Health Policy Recommendations
Create mechanisms for cooperation between DHHS, DOE, DOJ, legal experts and child health advocates to discuss research and data collection in and about schools and school children.
Review barriers that FERPA represents
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Metrics and MeasuresNext Steps “Ground truth” these measures to see if data
are available Determine if anyone is using facilities
measures to track children’s health in schools Continue to flesh out possible health in
schools measures
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What gets measured gets done
Learning
Children’s Health
Metrics
Facilities
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• Average public school is over 40 years old
• 40% are in bad to poor condition
• $271B to bring to decent standard
• Disparity of funding• One way forward is to
go green
Popular Press
www.parade.com/news/2012/08/12-rebuilding-americas-schools.html?index=1
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Courtesy of National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11756
Green Schools: Attributes for Health and Learning
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Source: Stanton, Hedge et al. (2004) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, CRC Press
Why is Indoor Environmental Quality Important?
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Metrics/Measures ElementsOutcomes Student Learning Student Health Indirect– Teacher and Staff Health– Teacher/Staff Effectiveness/Productivity– Teacher Retention
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Metrics/Measures ElementsLevel Region State County or City Community or Neighbor District School Building Classroom
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Metrics/Measure ElementsUses: Policy Practitioners Surveillance
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Facility/Building Characteristics
Current generation of green building and high performance schools began in 1999
The first studies of the actual performance of these projects began to emerge in 2009
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Gaps and LimitationsAcoustics
• Standards for background noise and reverberation time are well established, but adoption and compliance are low. Verification protocols need to be standardized and utilized• The role of amplified sound to ensure
maintaining sign to noise ratio is contentious• Frequency - metrics for high frequency impact
sounds and low frequency are problematic
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Gaps and LimitationsIndoor Air Quality• National standards do not exist for particulates
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Gaps and Limitations
Lighting How natural daylight affects learning Glare is qualitative
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Gaps and LimitationsFacility Condition Assessments No coordinated review of how states are using the
assessments and/or assessing the facilities themselves
We need mechanisms to validate the actual performance of high performance schools beyond the use of energy
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Gaps and LimitationsChildren’s Health and Safety Models for capturing child health data that
reference school attendance are needed More measures relating environmental
conditions in schools to health are needed Health levels of many individual chemicals do not
exist Synergistic and cumulative effects of chemicals
are not well defined