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Together at Last: Exploring Health and Environmental Information on the National Environmental Health Tracking Network
Wall PA . J Environ Health 2015 78 (3) 34-6 The National Tracking Web site really | looks nice, but I thought the whole idea | behind Environmental Health Tracking | was to be able to look at health and environmental information together. Why can’t the | system do that?” | It was a question that hung in the air like a | thick fog nearly every time I gave briefings to | management officials on the National Environmental Health Tracking Network Web site | since it was launched in 2009. The question | was easy to answer, but I still hated having to | answer it. | For those readers not familiar with Environmental Health Tracking, allow me to | explain some history. The Centers for Disease | Control and Prevention (CDC) established | the Environmental Health Tracking Program | in response to a September 2000 report by | the Pew Environmental Health Commission, | “America’s Environmental Health Gap: Why | the Country Needs a Nationwide Health | Tracking Network.” The report stated that | public health agencies lacked capacity to | evaluate and conduct key investigations into | the status of the health of their environment. | The Pew Commission’s report called for the | establishment of an Environmental Public | Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) that would monitor the level of burden | for environmentally related disease |
And that is how the story goes: CDC's National Environmental Health Tracking Network
Wall PA . J Environ Health 2011 74 (1) 36-7 In the summer of 2009, I was excited to | fi nally show my wife exactly what I had | been working on every day for the last | few years. The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) had offi cially launched (Figure 1). She | had been primed over many dinner conversations about the challenges of integrating | health and environmental information that | was originally collected, stored, and maintained for different purposes. She had listened patiently as I explained a geeky triangle | of metadata, Extensible Markup Language | (XML), and user interface design. But I was | anxious to see if she would perceive CDC’s | vision for a robust environmental health information system to help people learn about | the health status of their communities, environmental factors that may affect them, and | what they can do to stay healthy. |
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