Case Assignment: Health Tracking
Case Assignment: Health Tracking
Case Assignment: Health Tracking
Week 6 discussion Environmental Health Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and enter your city and state, ZIP code, or location into the location box. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens. Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement: “I didn’t know _____.” How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns? Optional: For more environmental health information, you can also visit the following websites. Environmental health tracking: http://ephtracking.cdc.gov/InfoByLocation/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Air quality: http://www.airnow.gov/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Toxic release inventory: http://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
The Tracking Program strives to achieve its vision of Healthy Informed Communities by empowering environmental and public health practitioners, healthcare providers, community members, policy makers, and others to make information-driven decisions that affect their health.
At the local, state, and national levels, the Tracking Program uses a network of people and information systems to deliver a core set of health, exposure, and hazards data, information summaries, and tools to enable analysis, visualization and reporting of insights drawn from data.the Pew Environmental Health Commission issued a report calling for the establishment of an environmental public health tracking network that would monitor the level of burden from environmentally related disease. In 2002, Congress appropriated funds to CDC to establish the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
