Environmental Public Health Tracking: Resources and Publications

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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 know!

Success Stories
Story Topic	Story Location	Story Title
Well Water	Portage County	Targeted Well Testing and Source Testing in a Small Wisconsin Village, P-02662 (PDF)
Well Water	Florence and Marinette Counties	Simplifying Well Water Test Results, P-01595c (PDF)
Well Water	Florence and Marinette Counties	Increasing Arsenic Testing in Private Wells, P-01595d (PDF)
Well Water	Rock County	Increasing Well Water Testing, P-01603 (PDF)
Nitrate	Clark County	Increasing Well Water Testing and Identifying Contamination Sources, P-02661 (PDF)
Nitrate	Rock County	Identifying Nitrate Sources to Improve Future Planning, P-01603a (PDF)
Nitrate	Eau Claire County	Development of a Nitrate Taskforce, P-01595a (PDF)
Well Water	Eau Claire County	Overcoming Communication Challenges to Improve Well Testing, P-01595b (PDF)
Well Water	Eau Claire County	A New Sampling Strategy: Using Partnerships to Improve Well Water Testing, P-01595 (PDF)
Well Water	Eau Claire County	Testing the Waters: Using Well Water Data to Target Outreach, P-00989a (PDF)
Heat	Wisconsin	Adding a Heat Response Plan Template to an Extreme Heat Toolkit, P-01611 (PDF)
Heat	Lincoln County	Creating an Extreme Heat Communication and Response Plan, P-01579a (PDF)
Heat	Grant County	Preventing Heat-Related Injury, P-01579 (PDF)
Heat	Grant County	Not the Usual Suspects: Using Heat-Related Injury Data to Inform Outreach Efforts, P-01578 (PDF)
Heat	Lincoln County	People Helping People: Lincoln County Health Department Nearly Doubles Cooling Centers for Heat Relief, P-01439 (PDF)
Health Impact Assessment	Wisconsin	The Role of Tracking in Assessing Health Outcomes of Wisconsin Industrial Sand Mining, P-00989d (PDF)
Policy	Wisconsin	Improving the Geographic Specificity of Hospitalization Data: From Use Case to Legislation, P-01437 (PDF)
Strategic Planning	Wisconsin	Part of the Plan: Inclusion of Tracking Data in Statewide Cancer Control Plan, P-00989e (PDF)
Data Quality	Wisconsin	Better Mapping for Better Public Health Outreach, P-00989c (PDF)
Emergency Response	Wisconsin	Active Alerts for a Public Health Emergency: The Case of Carbon Monoxide, P-00989b (PDF)
Emergency Response	Wisconsin	Using Poison Center Data to Better Understand the Impact of "Bath Salts," P-00989 (PDF)
Lead Poisoning	Wisconsin	Wisconsin Tracking Data Used to Highlight Childhood Lead Poisoning as a National Problem, P-01958a (PDF)
Lead Poisoning	Walworth County	Including Lead Poisoning Testing Prompts in Electronic Medical Records, P-01958 (PDF)
Lead Poisoning	Walworth County	Identifying Potential Lead Hazards Via Windshield Survey, P-01958b (PDF)
Well Water	Burnett County	Creating Baseline Arsenic Well Water Test Data, P-02023 (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Monroe County	Implementing a Multi-Component Sun Safety Campaign, P-02002 (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Monroe County	Creating More Environments that Promote Sun Safety, P-02002a (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Monroe County	Creating More Comprehensive Sun Safety Policies at Day Cares, P-02002b (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Door County	Strengthening Sun Safety Policies at Child Care Centers, P-02002c (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Door County	Implementing a Sun Safety Outreach Campaign, P-02002d (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Door County	Educating Outdoor Workers about the Importance of Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection, P-02002e (PDF)
Birth Defects	Wisconsin	Policy Change in Reporting Birth Defects to Improve Surveillance Efforts, P-02063 (PDF)
Lead Poisoning	Douglas County	Investigation of Lead Exposure Among Shipyard Workers, P-02062 (PDF)
Well Water	Rock County	Establishing a Relationship with a University Geography Department to Build Mapping Capacity, P-02183 (PDF)
Lead in Water	Waukesha County	Testing Water for Lead in Schools, P-02249 (PDF)
Lead Poisoning	Douglas County	Minnesota and Wisconsin Collaborate to Curb Occupational Lead Exposure Among Shipyard Workers
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning	Bayfield County	Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, P-02276 (PDF)
Lyme Disease	Eau Claire County	Lyme Disease Ticks Me Off! Lyme Disease Surveillance and Outreach, P-02285 (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Fond du Lac County	Enhanced Sun Safety Messaging and Outreach, P-02333 (PDF)
Well Water	La Crosse County	Moving Local Nitrate Data to Focused Recommendations, P-02347 (PDF)
Lead in Water	Rock County	Evaluating the Risk of Lead in School Drinking Water, P-02352 (PDF)
Melanoma (Skin Cancer)	Calumet County	Leading a Sun Safety Campaign, P-02002f (PDF)
Well Water	Marquette County	Reducing Barriers to Well Testing, P-02513 (PDF)
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning	Eau Claire County	Getting Alarmed: Improving Carbon Monoxide Detection, P-02276A (PDF)
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning	Washburn County	Increasing the Number of Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Low-Income Households, P-02276B (PDF)
Childhood Lead Poisoning	Menasha, Wisconsin	Creating a Publicly Accessible Home Lead Risks Database, P-02514 (PDF)

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