49 National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network

49.1 Organization

National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), CDC

49.3 Description

  • Combines health and environment data from national, state, and city sources
  • Information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health (air quality, asthma, biomonitoring, birth defects, cancer, carbon monoxide poisoning, childhood cancers, childhood lead poisoning, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, climate change, community characteristics, community design, community water, developmental disabilities, drought, heart disease, heat stress illness, lifestyle risk factors, pesticide exposures, populations and vulnerabilities, reproductive and birth outcomes, sunlight and UV, toxic substances release)

49.4 Vintage/Release Frequency

Annual but varies depending on measures

49.5 Observational Unit

County or census tract, state (geographic unit depending on the measure selected

49.6 Collection Methodology

49.7 Available at

Can use the data explorer to generate county-level data that can be downloaded for use at https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/DataExplorer/#/ Downloadable data sets are available at https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/download

49.8 User Guide/Data Dictionary

No data dictionary but can find information for each indicator under https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/indicatorPages

49.9 Cost

Free

49.10 Proposal or Application required?

No

49.11 DUA required?

No

49.12 Special Notes

Fact sheets, infographics, learning resources, publications and data resources are linked at https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/tracking/resources.htm ?