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Saratoga County unveils poison-control dashboard to track local exposures
Summary
County public health staff demonstrated an interactive dashboard that uses Upstate Poison Control Center call data to map exposures by ZIP code, age and substance, and to guide prevention efforts.
Saratoga County public health officials on April 1 demonstrated a new poison-control data dashboard that displays calls from county residents to the Upstate Poison Control Center and breaks them down by ZIP code, age group, substance category and outcome.
County epidemiologist Steven Sheridan told the Health and Human Services Committee the dashboard is updated monthly and is intended to help the county and community partners target prevention and outreach. "This is our poison data dashboard," Sheridan said. "It's something that we're excited about. ... This information comes from calls from Saratoga County to…
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