National Environmental Health Tracking Network
Description
"The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) brings together health data and environmental data from national, state, and city sources and provides supporting information to make the data easier to understand. The Tracking Network has data and information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health."
Questions this resource can help answer
- What is the baseline rate of asthma or heart attacks in my county?
- Is the rate of air-pollution-related hospitalizations higher in my community than in the rest of the state?
How do I use this resource?
Learn more about the concentrations of, and burden to health from, air pollution in your community
Resource information
Technical specifications
"The CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking (Tracking) Network utilizes a multidisciplinary methodology designed to bridge the gap between separate health and environmental information systems. Its development is based on the Environmental Public Health Surveillance model, which focuses on the "causal pathway" from environmental hazard to population exposure and, finally, to adverse health effects."
