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ArticleJournal of public health management and practice : JPHMP

Environmental public health tracking: driving environmental health information.

Alex E Charleston, Holly R Wilson, Peter O Edwards, Felicita David, Shannon Dewitt

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Article in Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Fulfilling the vision of environmental public health tracking.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alex E CharlestonNational Center for Environmental Health (Mr Charleston); and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Mss Wilson and David and Messrs Edwards and Dewitt).
Holly R Wilson
Peter O Edwards
Felicita David
Shannon Dewitt

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextHistorically, 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.

objectiveAs 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.

participantsThe Tracking Network is composed of state, local, and national environment and public health partners. SETTINGS: The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network is part of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

designTracking 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.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.Environmental HealthEnvironmental MonitoringHumansPopulation SurveillancePublic HealthUnited States

Identifiers

PMID25621444
PMCPMC4801009

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