Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT)
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The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN) provides information from a nationwide network of integrated health and environmental data that drives actions to improve the health of communities. This national network, expected to go live in 2009, will provide information on the links between key environmental health indicators (air, carbon monoxide, lead, water) and the development of disease. NACCHO, in collaboration with the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is offering the local health perspective through strategies for strengthening collaboration and communication between state grantees and local health departments (LHDs). Please Join NACCHO for our third webinar, Building Blocks of Tracking: Building Capacity without Funding on March 18, from 1-2:30 P.M. This webinar will focus on two localities that built capacity on tracking without outside funding source. By the conclusion of this webinar, participants will gain skills that one can employ to set up a tracking program in their locality and gain a better understanding on how state health agencies and local health departments have worked together to further the tracking process. Please click here to register, and join us on March 18. NACCHO is launching a series of monthly webinars for local public health and environmental health representatives who are interested in bridging the gap between environmental and health data. The webinars will take place the second Thursday of the month at 1:00 P.M. E.S.T. (12:00 P.M. C.S.T./10:00 A.M. P.S.T.), starting in January.
A local health department in Davis County, OR, recently received calls from residents concerned about groundwater contaminants and cancer rates. The Davis County health department, like many other local health departments nationwide, responds to residents concerned about their health. March 7-13, 2010 marks National Ground Water Awareness Week. Local health departments in Utah, along with 23 other states and New York City, are using the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network to keep ground water an abundant resource. More » New Data Added
The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network now includes data on reproductive and birth outcomes, as well as modeled air data. The national tracking network monitors broad environmental public health concerns that affect communities across the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides funds to health departments in 23 states and one city to contribute data to the tracking network, So far, tracking networks have been established in California, Maryland, Florida, Maine, New York, Oregon, New York City, Wisconsin, Utah, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Washington, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, South Carolina, and Vermont. |
