Environmental Public Health Tracking: Success Stories from a Collaborative Surveillance System

Authors

  • Carrie Eggers Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Patrick Wall Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5088

Abstract

The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program facilitates the linkage of environmental information to health outcomes through development of a national standards-based public health surveillance system that provides useful information to improve where we live and work. State tracking programs have successfully used their tracking networks to identify and educate at-risk communities. Other success stories include endeavours to improve surveillance, support epidemiologic studies, target prevention efforts, and inform policymakers. Future directions include identifying knowledge gaps, developing plans for adding new data sources and collaborators to fill those gaps, and improving application and utility of the Tracking Networks.

Author Biography

Carrie Eggers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

Prior to joining CDC's Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program, Carrie Eggers was a CDC/CSTE/ASTHO/PHII Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow at the Florida Department of Health where she was involved in the development of a centralized statewide outbreak documentation system for use by state and local epidemiologists. Ms. Eggers received her Master of Public Health at Emory University after undergraduate studies in Biology and Chemistry at California State University, San Marcos.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Eggers, C., & Wall, P. (2014). Environmental Public Health Tracking: Success Stories from a Collaborative Surveillance System. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5088

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Oral Presentations

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