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Healthy Community Planning NJ

Description

Website providing health and environmental data for municipalities in New Jersey

Questions this resource can help answer

What are the health risks and environmental data for municipalities in New Jersey?

How do health and environmental risks compare between individual NJ municipalities and the state average?

How do I use this resource?

The website starts with a map of counties in New Jersey. Click on a county to get access to municipalities within the county. For each municipality, you can download a summary report, a book of maps of key environmental, health, and demographic information, and a full report, which includes that information, plus some additional information regarding what is being done to address the environmental concerns.

Pro tips

Make sure to take a look at the FAQs section. It contains good information to help interpret the information in the reports, as well as providing links to additional useful resources.

Resource information

Resource owner

Government

Format

Website

Backup URL

Update Frequency

Irregularly

Geographic Coverage

county, Local (city, municipality), New Jersey

Technical specifications

Methodology

HCP-NJ indicators are aggregate measures which cannot be interpreted as being causally related to any individual’s health outcomes. HCP-NJ indicators do not show disease causation. While some indicators assess known primary risk factors for specific health outcomes (for example, older housing is a proxy for the likelihood of having lead-based paint, which is an established risk factor for elevated blood lead levels in children); other indicators assess one of many risk factors for a health outcome (for example, asthma episodes can be triggered by air pollution but also by tobacco smoke, dust mites, allergens, pets, mold, and wood smoke). HCP-NJ is designed to serve as a screening tool to provide communities with a starting point to determine which potential areas might need for a closer look or detailed analysis.

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