The CEHA process resulted in prioritization of
community environmental health issues and demand
for environmental health services to alleviate problems
associated with those priorities. CEHA activities and
goals set by the Cardozo CIIMSA caused environmental
health leadership to seek new ways of interacting with
the community. Increased participation by environmental
health leadership brought more science-based information
to the community in the form of sanitary
survey results,micr obiologic water analysis and reliable
locally appropriate indicators to monitor progress. An
essential outcome of the assessment process was the
development of an environmental health planning
process to drive decision-making about the Cardozo
environmental health risk monitoring system. For the
first time,environm ental health leaders from laboratory
services,water and sewage utilities,he alth-care organizations,
volunte er groups, and environmental health
services met to operationalize an environmental health
risk monitoring system. This system promotes the
sharing of information so that responsible authorities
will take appropriate corrective action.