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Environmental Public Health Tracking: Ideas for Taking Action

The Environmental Public Health Tracking data portal and County Environmental Health Profiles put environmental health data right at your fingertips. But what do you do after you review your data?

Click on the pictures below to find strategies for addressing environmental health topics.

Keep in mind that your local health department doesn't need to do all the work here. Coordinating with allies in your public health system to develop an array of interventions will help you achieve more.

Gather more ideas and connect with communities doing similar work by reviewing the success stories tab of our resources page.

Two people talking while sitting at the laptop computer in an office

Looking for more strategies? Check out What Works for Health, the Community Guide, the National Institutes of Health, and the Rural Health Information Hub.

Ideas for taking action:

Two adults and two children on grass in a park
Air Quality
Young child blowing bubbles outside
Asthma
Young pair of hands holding an older pair of hands
Cancer (Melanoma)

 

An adult checks a smoke detector in the ceiling.
Carbon Monoxide
Climate change before (desert) and after (lush grass) with a silhouette of a person in between
Heat Stress
Looking over the neighborhood homes with trees and downtown buildings in the background, Milwaukee
Community Design

 

Senior and teen lying on the grass laughing together
COPD
Red with green trim emergency sign outside a hospital
Heart Attack
A toddler playing with blocks on an area rug at home
Lead Poisoning

 

A pair of runner shoes walking through tall grasses
Lyme Disease

Glossary

 
Last revised March 15, 2023