Topic: Health impacts
EPA’s Human Exposure Model (HEM) is a probabilistic exposure assessment tool used to estimate how people are exposed to contaminants (often air pollutants, but not limited to them) through different pathways and microenvironments. It is designed to support human health risk assessments by translating environmental concentrations into population exposure distributions for specific pollutants, locations, and demographic groups. HEM uses information on contaminant levels, population characteristics, and time–activity patterns to produce quantitative estimates of average and high-end exposures suitable for regulatory analyses and comparative policy evaluations.
Mapping tool that shows estimates of mortality and morbidity impacts from coal fired power plants in the U.S.
Web tool providing information on neighborhood built environment, asthma, climate, housing, and outdoor air, intended to show how environments affect health.
Website providing health and environmental data for municipalities in New Jersey
CalEnviroScreen, developed by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), is a screening tool that scores and ranks census tracts across the state based on cumulative pollution burdens and population vulnerabilities. It combines data on pollution sources and exposures (air pollution, hazardous sites, traffic, drinking water, etc.) with sensitive population and socioeconomic indicators (e.g., asthma ER visits, cardiovascular disease, poverty, linguistic isolation) to identify communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple environmental and social stressors.
EPA’s COBRA (Co-Benefits Risk Assessment) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool estimates how changes in air emissions—especially from energy and climate policies—affect air pollution levels, health outcomes, and related economic benefits across U.S. counties. Users can input emissions changes or select built-in scenarios, and COBRA uses reduced-form air quality modeling plus health impact and valuation functions to produce quick, screening-level estimates of avoided deaths, illnesses, and monetized health benefits, along with maps and tables for communication and planning.
The HARP Air Dispersion Modeling and Risk Tool, developed by the California Air Resources Board, is Windows-based software that allows users to run air dispersion models and calculate associated health risks from toxic air pollutants. Used primarily in the state’s Hot Spots Analysis & Reporting Program, it integrates modeled concentration outputs with built?in health effect values and demographic data (including a dedicated census database and health database) to support standardized health risk assessments for stationary emission sources in California.
Template intended to help jurisdictions navigate the community action planning process by providing a set of sample strategic objectives, actions, and evaluation metrics to plan program activities to address key children’s environmental health issues in communities.
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program tracks the industrial management of toxic chemicals. TRI data are reported annually by industrial and federal facilities that meet reporting requirements. EPA makes these data available through multiple online tools, many of which add context to help make the reported data more understandable.
