title: Environmental public health tracking: driving environmental health information.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Historically, public health professionals lacked the capacity to evaluate and conduct key investigations into the health of their environment. By bringing together environmental and health effects data from a variety of data sources, the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking) allows users to easily analyze and research the relationships between human health and the environment.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  As the Tracking Network has matured, its information has been used to guide public health actions, generate hypothesis, and demonstrate relationships between environment and health outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Tracking Network is composed of state, local, and national environment and public health partners.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network is part of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Tracking standardizes existing data from diverse sources while leveraging technologies and applying sound communication practices to provide a user-friendly interface for the data system by all types of users.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Environmental Health (Mr Charleston); and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Mss Wilson and David and Messrs Edwards and Dewitt).
authors.forename: Alex E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Charleston
authors.forename: Holly R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Peter O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Felicita
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dewitt
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. / Q000458:organization & administration; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000379:methods*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States