49 National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
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)
49.5 Observational Unit
County or census tract, state (geographic unit depending on the measure selected
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
49.12 Special Notes
Fact sheets, infographics, learning resources, publications and data resources are linked at https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/tracking/resources.htm ?