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Alternative Title:
J Public Health Manag Pract
Personal Author:
Eatman, Shana ; Strosnider, Heather M.
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Description:
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.
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Article Environmental Monitoring Environmental Public Health Action Environmental Public Health Surveillance Environmental Surveillance Public Health Action State And Local Health Departments Surveillance System Tracking
Source:
J Public Health Manag Pract. 23(Suppl 5 ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRACKING):S9-S17.
Pubmed ID:
28763381
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5672914
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
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CDC Public Access
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49644/cdc_49644_DS1.pdf
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