Linking Exposure and Health in Environmental Public Health Tracking

Electronic Health Records and Environmental Public Health Tracking

Introduction The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) is a national surveillance system that integrates environmental hazard, exposure, and health outcome data into one system. The Tracking Network launched in July 2009, and has since been receiving data from 23 funded state and local health departments, and several national partners, e.g., Environmental Protection Ag...

Integrating Research, Surveillance, and Practice in Environmental Public Health Tracking

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is working with selected state and local health departments, academic centers, and others to develop an environmental public health tracking initiative to improve geographic and temporal surveillance of environmental hazards, exposures, and related health outcomes. The objective is to support poli...

CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network adds pesticide exposure and prospective climate data.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National En­ vironmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) expands con­ tent and functionality every year. This year, two new datasets were added: pesticide expo­ sure and 70 years of prospective climate data. These represent two important environmen­ tal public health concerns. In 2012, pesticides were the 10th leading ca...

The Future of Environmental Public Health Tracking: 2020 and Beyond.

Environmental public health tracking/surveillance in Canada: a commentary.

Although public debate in Canada about climate change and air pollution is louder than ever, the state of the environment remains a relatively neglected determinant of health, and environmental public health infrastructure and programs are poorly developed. Health Canada has only recently begun to develop a national environmental public health tracking or surveillance system. The authors review...