Environmental Public Health Tracking
This web site provides access to data about the environment and human health. It describes concepts related to how the environment affects human health and has links to projects that use health and environmental data. Our goal is to continue building this site over time to provide access to a variety of environmental health information.
Concepts
- What is Environmental Health and Tracking?
- What is Exposure?
- What Tracking Can and Can't Tell Us
- About Environment, Exposure, Health and Other Data
- Glossary
Data
- Environmental - Access a variety of information on air, water, hazardous waste, radon and pesticides.
- Exposures - Explore data about measured concentrations of chemicals in people's bodies (e.g. blood lead levels).
- Health - Browse information about cancer, birth outcomes, asthma and more!
- Other - View other important data that describe people (age, race and sex), or behavior or lifestyle choices that could affect the likelihood that people are diagnosed with particular health condition.
Programs
- NYS Environmental Public Health Tracking Program - Read about our EPHT program that focuses on our ability to learn more about important patterns and trends in environmental health.
- Environmental Justice - Learn more about New York State's Environmental Justice program and NYS DOH's efforts in this program, which focuses on improving the environment in communities, specifically minority and low-income communities, and addressing the greater environmental burdens that may exist in those communities.
- Cancer Surveillance Improvement Initiative - Find out about the Cancer Surveillance Improvement Initiative (CSII), which provides data and information on cancer incidence for four types of cancer by ZIP Code.