Surveillance of Childhood Blood Lead Levels in New York City, 1995-2002
Table of Contents and Executive Summary of the Report
Chapter 1: Testing For Lead Poisoning
Chapter 2: Elevated Blood Lead Levels (> 10 µg/dL)
Chapter 3: Environmental Intervention Blood Lead Levels
Appendix Table of Contents and Technical Notes
Table 1A: Numbers and rates of children tested for lead poisoning before their third birthday, by borough and United Hospital Fund neighborhood: New York City, children born in 1997.
Table 1B: Numbers and rates of children tested for lead poisoning before their second birthday, by borough and year: New York City compared to New York State, children born in 1995-1997.
Table 2: Numbers and rates of (1) children tested for lead poisoning in a given calendar year, (2) children with elevated blood lead levels, and (3) children at or above the environmental intervention blood lead level, ages 0 to less than 18 years, by age and year: New York City, 1995-2000.
Table 3: Numbers and rates of (1) children tested for lead poisoning in a given calendar year, (2) children with elevated blood lead levels, and (3) children at or above the environmental intervention blood lead level, ages 0 to less than 18 years, by age, borough, and year: New York City, 1995-2000.
Table 4: Numbers and rates of (1) children tested for lead poisoning in a given calendar year, (2) children with elevated blood lead levels, and (3) children at or above the environmental intervention blood lead level, ages 0 to less than 18 years, by age, borough, United Hospital Fund neighborhood, ZIP code, and year: New York City, 2000.
Table 5: Number of children with newly identified with blood lead levels at or above the environmental intervention blood lead level, ages 0 to less than 18 years, by year: New York City, 1970-2000.
Table 6: Children at or above the environmental intervention blood lead level, ages 0 to less than 18 years, by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and year: New York City, 1995-2000.
Table 7: Children ages 6 months to less than 6 years newly identified with blood lead levels > 20 µg/dL in 2000, by area characteristics within ZIP codes.
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