Environmental Public Health Tracking: Publications and Resources
Find newsletters, surveillance briefs, success stories, publications, and more on this page from the Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.
Surveillance briefs
- Birth Defects in Wisconsin, 2008-2021, P-00840-2008-2021 (PDF)
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Disparities in Wisconsin, P-01071b (PDF)
- Heat-Related Illness on the Job: A Look at Worker's Compensation Claims in Wisconsin, P-03497 (PDF)
- Wisconsin Influenza Vaccine Update: 2019-2021, P-03324 (PDF)
- Outdoor Air Pollution in Wisconsin: Fine Particulate Matter, P-03322 (PDF)
- COPD Morbidity and Mortality in Wisconsin, P-03319 (PDF)
- Adult Lead Poisoning in Wisconsin: Sources, Prevention, and Intervention, P-03115 (PDF)
- Extreme Cold in Wisconsin: Trends, Surveillance, and Prevention, P-02577 (PDF)
- Extreme Heat: Who's at Highest Risk, P-02386 (PDF)
- What's in Your Water? A Look at Private Well Water Quality in Wisconsin, P-01830 (PDF)
- Health Disparities in Wisconsin Hospitalizations for Asthma, P-01727 (PDF)
- Lyme Disease Trends in Wisconsin, P-01295 (PDF)
- An Invisible Killer: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Wisconsin, P-01071a (PDF)
- Heat Stress in Wisconsin: Resources and Opportunities for Action, P-01071 (PDF)
- Ultraviolet Radiation and Wisconsin: Opportunities to Reduce Wisconsin Youth Exposure
(PDF) - Lung Cancer Risk and Radon in Wisconsin: The Need for Increased Testing and Improved Reporting
(PDF)
Outreach materials
Asthma
Asthma in Wisconsin Data Byte Video (opens external video)
Cancer concerns
Cancer Concerns in Wisconsin Communities, P-45021 (PDF)
Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Residences: Information for Landlords, P-02936
- Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Residences: Information for Tenants, P-02935
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Data Byte Video (opens external video)
- Ice Arena Air Quality (access fact sheets for parents and coaches)
- Protecting Your Family from Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet, P-01569
- Signs and Symptoms of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, P-01029 (PDF)
- Staying Safe from Carbon Monoxide While Boating, P-02211
- Using Generators Safely Fact Sheet, P-01561
For more information on carbon monoxide poisoning, please see the carbon monoxide webpage.
Childhood lead poisoning
Childhood Lead Poisoning Data Byte Video (opens external video)
Heat and cold safety
Heat Safety Video (opens external video)
Working in the cold: what workers and employers should know, P-03560 (PDF)
Lyme disease
- Lyme Disease Data Byte Video (opens external video)
- Tips for Preventing Lyme Disease Video (opens external video)
Outdoor air pollution
Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Data Byte Video (opens external video)
Program information
Recorded webinars
- 2020-09-10—Information Systems to Advance Environmental Justice (opens external video)
- 2019-05-07—Lyme Disease Prevention Tools and Tips 2019 Pep Rally (opens external video)
- 2019-03-13—Taking Action with Data: A Closer Look at Well Water Quality (opens external video)
- 2018-11-20—Taking Action with Data: A Closer Look at Carbon Monoxide (opens external video)
- 2018-07-10—Reporting Carbon Monoxide (opens external video)
- 2018-05-03—Lyme Disease Prevention Tools and Tips 2018 Pep Rally (opens external video)
- 2018-01-17—On Alert: Monitoring Wisconsin Carbon Monoxide Poisonings with an Active Alert System (opens external video)
- 2016-02-18—Breathing Easy: Monitoring Air Quality in Ice Arenas (opens external video)
Partners and links
- Well Water Quality
Viewer - Wisconsin Climate and Health Program
- Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
(UW-Madison) - Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change
Impacts - Wisconsin State Lab of
Hygiene - Department of Natural Resources Air Quality
Data - Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Data - National Environmental Public Health
Tracking
Near real-time data
- Wisconsin Flood Risk Mapping
Application (Wisconsin Department of Health Services) - Wisconsin Restaurant Inspection
Data (Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection) - Respiratory Virus data (Wisconsin Department of Health Services)
- Beach
advisories (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) - Air quality
monitoring (AirNow)
We collect success stories from communities that have integrated Environmental Public Health Tracking data and resources into their work. If you have a story to share, please let us
- Occupational Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Wisconsin: Results From a Statewide Electronic Disease Surveillance System and From the Wisconsin Poison Center,
2018-2021 Public Health Reports, 2023 - Increased Alcohol-Related Mortality in Wisconsin Pre-COVID: A Two-Decade
Trend
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2022 - Measuring work-related risk of COVID-19: comparison of COVID-19 incidence by occupation and industry - Wisconsin, September 2020-May
2021
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2022 - Fish consumption and advisory awareness in the Great Lakes
basin
Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Assessment of extreme heat preparedness in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2021, Volume 120, Number 3 - Fish consumption and awareness of fish advisories among Burmese refugees: A respondent-driven sampling study in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Environmental Research, 2021, Volume 197 - Pulmonary illness related to E-cigarette use in Illinois and Wisconsin - final
report
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020, Volume 382, Number 10 - Adult asthma control and self-management, Wisconsin
2012–2016
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 4 - Survey of radon testing and mitigation by Wisconsin residents, landlords, and school
districts
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 4 - E-cigarette product use, or vaping, among persons with associated lung injury - Illinois and Wisconsin, April-September
2019
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2019, Volume 68, Number 39 - Severe pulmonary disease associated with electronic cigarette product use - interim
guidance
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2019, Volume 68, Number 36 - Carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning cases in Wisconsin,
2006-2016
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 1 - Exposures to opioids among Wisconsin children and adolescents,
2002-2016
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 1 - Extreme heat: Who's at highest
risk?
Minnesota Medicine, 2019, Volume 102, Number 3 - Notes from the field: Occupational carbon monoxide exposure in an industrial kitchen facility - Wisconsin,
2017
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2018, Volume 67, Number 28 - Occupational mercury exposure at a fluorescent lamp recycling facility - Wisconsin,
2017
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2018, Volume 67, Number 27 - An occupational legacy: Malignant mesothelioma incidence and mortality in
Wisconsin
Journal of Occupation and Environmental Medicine, 2018, Volume 60, Number 12 - Lead exposure among workers at a shipyard—Wisconsin,
2015-2016
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2018, Volume 60, Number 10 - Taking action with data: Improving environmental public health at the community
level
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017, Volume 23, Number 1 - Improving outreach and surveillance efforts following a large-scale carbon monoxide poisoning in
Wisconsin
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017, Volume 23, Number 1 - Heat vulnerability index mapping for Milwaukee and
Wisconsin
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017, Volume 23, Issue 4 - Drinking-water treatment, climate change, and childhood gastrointestinal illness projections for northern Wisconsin (USA) communities drinking untreated
groundwater
Hydrogeology Journal, 2017, Volume 25, Issue 4 - Occurrence of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) and human infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Wisconsin,
2008-2015
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2017, Volume 54, Number 3 - Notes from the field: Occupational lead exposures at a shipyard - Douglas County, Wisconsin,
2016
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2017, Volume 66, Number 1 - Electronic cigarette exposure: Calls to Wisconsin Poison Control Centers,
2010-2015
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2016, Volume 115, Number 6 - Exposure to elevated carbon monoxide levels at an indoor ice arena - Wisconsin,
2014
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2015, Volume 64, Number 45 - Using environmental public health tracking to identify community targets for public health actions in childhood lead poisoning in
Wisconsin
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2015, Volume 21, Supplement 2 - Heat stress illness hospitalizations - Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, 20 states,
2001-2010
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2014, Volume 63, Number 13 - Heat-related fatalities in Wisconsin during the summer of
2012
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2013, Volume 112, Number 5 - Private drinking water quality in rural
Wisconsin
Journal of Environmental Health, 2013, Volume 75, Number 7 - Environmental health indicators of climate change for the United States: Findings from the State Environmental Health Indicator
Collaborative
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2009, Volume 117, Number 11 - Measuring the environmental health of Wisconsin's
counties
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2008, Volume 107, Number 4 - Using a partnership barometer to evaluate environmental public health tracking
activities
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2008, Volume 14, Number 6 - Effective environmental public health surveillance programs: A framework for identifying and evaluating data resources and
indicators
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2008, Volume 14, Number 6 - Evaluation of five data sources for inclusion in a statewide tracking system for accidental carbon monoxide
poisonings
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2006, Volume 105, Number 2 - Linking childhood cancer with potential environmental exposure
determinants
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2006, Volume 105, Number 2 - Wisconsin's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network: Information systems design for childhood cancer
surveillance
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004, Volume 112, Number 14
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