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Environmental Public Health Tracking, an untapped resource for occupational health
Namulanda G , Monti M , Werner A , Nogueira I , Solomon G , English P , Karlsson N , Cosser A , Bush K , Mitchell C . J Occup Environ Hyg 2022 19 1-9 The cornerstone of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) is the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network)—a web-based system with components at the local, state, and national levels (Qualters et al. Citation2015). The Tracking Network brings together standardized data on environmental hazards, exposures to these hazards, potentially related health effects, and other data such as socioeconomic and risk factors (CDC Citation2021). The Tracking Program uses these data to perform environmental public health surveillance activities, such as identifying and assessing the distribution of hazards in the environment and the health effects resulting from exposure to these hazards, to provide information that can be used to improve the public’s health (Qualters et al. Citation2015; Eatman and Strosnider Citation2017). The CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) surveillance programs perform similar activities but with workers as their target population, and with the goal to improve worker safety and health (Thomsen et al. Citation2007; NIOSH Citation2022a). |
Environmental public health tracking: From data to action
Yip FY . J Public Health Manag Pract 2017 23 Suppl 5 Supplement, Environmental Public Health Tracking S1-s3 Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice and is an important component in assessing the function of public health.1 In 2000, a Pew Environmental Health Commission's report highlighted the lack of surveillance data and information to monitor the burden of environmentally related disease and the need to improve our understanding of the links between environmental hazards and chronic diseases.2 In response, the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was developed in 2002. Since its inception, the Tracking Program has worked closely with a community of funded state and local health departments to build capacity and infrastructure to develop the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network), an integrated network of environmental health surveillance data at the local, state, and national levels. Application of these data is key to support evidence-based decision making and public health actions within state and local programs to help promote healthy and informed communities. Now in its 15th year, the Tracking Program continues to enhance the infrastructure of the Tracking Network to support more consistent use of its data and program resources to help inform public health actions, with the ultimate goal of reducing the burden of environmentally related health conditions. | This special issue of the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice offers a unique examination of the breadth of work by CDC and its partners in the Tracking Program, with a focus on how the Tracking Network and program resources have been utilized to support environmental public health practice and inform specific public health actions. Wilson and Charleston3 first provide an overview of the Tracking Program's history and development and how support from the Tracking Program can improve environmental public health practice at the state and local levels. Eatman and Strosnider4 then discuss the process that is taken to monitor public health actions, which serves as a performance measurement for the Tracking Program. They provide 3 case studies to highlight the diversity of actions taken by tracking partners. More than 400 public health actions have been finalized by the Tracking Program since 2005, thereby illustrating the opportunities for our partners to use the data and resources to help address the environmental public health needs at the state and local levels. Zhou et al5 then provide an initial examination of standardized approaches for estimating the monetary value of different health outcomes, for both generating additional information to support environmental health decision making and evaluating the costs and benefits of public health actions informed by the Tracking Program and its partners. Lucas-Pipkorn and Tuomi6 provide the last article at the national level and describe efforts by the Tracking Program to address gaps in the Tracking Network by developing new partnerships between the Tracking Program, state health departments, and tribal communities. |
CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program in action: Case studies from state and local health departments
Eatman S , Strosnider HM . J Public Health Manag Pract 2017 23 Suppl 5 Supplement, Environmental Public Health Tracking S9-s17 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) is a multidisciplinary collaboration that involves the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data from environmental hazard monitoring, human exposure surveillance, and health effects surveillance. With a renewed focus on data-driven decision-making, the CDC's Tracking Program emphasizes dissemination of actionable data to public health practitioners, policy makers, and communities. The CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network), a Web-based system with components at the national, state, and local levels, houses environmental public health data used to inform public health actions (PHAs) to improve community health. This article serves as a detailed landscape on the Tracking Program and Tracking Network and the Tracking Program's leading performance measure, "public health actions." Tracking PHAs are qualitative statements addressing a local problem or situation, the role of the state or local Tracking Program, how the problem or situation was addressed, and the action taken. More than 400 PHAs have been reported by funded state and local health departments since the Tracking Program began collecting PHAs in 2005. Three case studies are provided to illustrate the use of the Tracking Program resources and data on the Tracking Network, and the diversity of actions taken. Through a collaborative network of experts, data, and tools, the Tracking Program and its Tracking Network are actively informing state and local PHAs. In a time of competing priorities and limited funding, PHAs can serve as a powerful tool to advance environmental public health practice. |
A Millennial's Take on CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Eatman S . J Environ Health 2015 78 (1) 40-3 Fifteen years ago, the Pew Environmental Health Commission detailed in a report the lack of basic information available to document linkages between environmental exposures and the health of the public. The commission found that there was “no cohesive national strategy to identify environmental hazards, measure population exposures, and track health conditions that may be related to the environment (Pew Environmental Health Commission, 2000).” This report served as the impetus for the creation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program). Before the Tracking Program was funded in 2002, no integrated systems existed at the national or state level that tracked exposures to environmental hazards and potential health effects. In 2002, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health was one of the first state health departments to receive CDC funding for local tracking projects. At this time, I was a preteen in Massachusetts, also connecting the pieces to a bigger picture; but in my case this meant playing Tetris® on my handheld Game Boy®. | | In 2009, the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) launched, becoming the first-of-its-kind surveillance system to provide environmental data and public health data in a one-stop shop (Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, 2010). Just as the Tracking Network was maturing and developing into the surveillance system it is now, millennials were being shaped by connectivity and technical advances. Millennials have had access to information at our fingertips since elementary school through the use of computers and smartphones. Today, as a user of the Tracking Network, I can attest to its user-friendly functionality and wealth of data. With just a few strokes on the keyboard, data on environmental hazards and exposures and data on diseases can be pulled up quickly. This system provides interactive and customizable tools to make sense of the data. The younger generation is adept at navigating new platforms and technologies; our brains are trained to adapt to new information-processing skills. We are the first generation to have had access to the Internet during our formative years, which molded the way in which we interact with technology. We also care deeply about the environment, our health, and social determinants of health. The Tracking Network is not only designed in a way that is appealing to millennials like me, but the content it houses is equally as important to my generation. |
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