Transcript CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program Holly R. Wilson, MHSE, CHES Health Communications Specialist Environmental Health Tracking Branch National Center for Environmental Health Division of Environmental.

CDC’s Environmental Public
Health Tracking Program
Holly R. Wilson, MHSE, CHES
Health Communications Specialist
Environmental Health Tracking Branch
National Center for Environmental Health
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects
Pew Commission Report, 2000
“What we are limited in knowing is if there is a link between
pollution and the increases we are seeing in chronic
diseases because we aren’t tracking environmental health
factors.
We need to gather the facts now.
American’s have a right, and the
need to know.”
Lowell Weicker, Jr.
Chairman, Pew Environmental Health
Commission
Laying the Foundation
Tracking Partners
• State and local health departments
• National public health and environmental health
professional organizations
• Universities
• Advocacy and community groups
• Other CDC Programs
• Other Federal Agencies
Implementation: 2006-2009
Building the Network
• Gathering
requirements
• Setting standards
• Testing designs
• Engaging partners
• Flexibility to evolve
Expansion: 2009-present
Current Tracking Grantees
The Tracking Network
The Tracking Network is a system of integrated health,
exposure, and hazard information and data from a
variety of national, state, and city sources.
The Tracking Network
• Access to health and environmental information
• Allows user to query data
• Provides contextual information and prevention
messages
Tracking Network Demo
www.cdc.gov/ephtracking
NETWORK CONTENT
Layers of
Information
www.cdc.gov/ephtracking
Health Effects
• Asthma
• Birth Defects
• Cancer
• CO Poisoning
• Childhood
Lead Poisoning
• Developmental
Disabilities
• Heart Attacks
• Reproductive &
Birth Outcomes
Environments
• Climate Change
• Community Design
• Homes
• Outdoor Air
– Health Impacts of Fine
Particles in Air
• Water
Population Data
• Population
Characteristics
– Demographics
– Socioeconomics
• Biomonitoring:
Population Exposures
– National estimate only
– 11 environmental chemicals
Data Query
COMING SOON!
Coming in 2012
Expanded and Updated Data & Resources
• Children’s Environmental Health
• BRFSS: Smoking data
• Additional states reporting birth defects data
• Updates to current data sets
• New communication tools
Coming in 2012
Enhanced Functionality
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Enhanced mapping capabilities
Improved options for charts
Second view feature
Advanced view stratification
Coming in 2012
Secure Portal
• National data repository
• Role based access
• Drag and drop report building
• Tracking toolkit
• Tracking metadata creation tool
Questions?
“CDC’s Tracking Network is the most
important accomplishment of the past
decade.”
Thomas Burke, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Public Health Practice and Training and
Professor in Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333
Telephone, 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348
E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.cdc.gov
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official
position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Center for Environmental Health
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects