When Is a Health Outcome Data Evaluation Conducted?

Other Considerations

The public health assessment process calls for a health outcome data evaluation when certain conditions are met. These conditions relate to demonstrating completed or potential exposure, time of exposure, the exposed population, the level of exposure, a comparable reference population, and the availability of health outcome data.

Click on the boxes that follow or on the View All link below to see some facts that a health assessor would consider when deciding whether a health outcome data evaluation might be helpful.


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For a step-by-step process on deciding whether health outcome data should be evaluated, see the Health Outcome Data Evaluation Decision Tree for evaluating site-related exposures.