scholarly journals Environmental Health Indicators for China: Data Resources for Chinese Environmental Public Health Tracking

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 044501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Ban ◽  
Zonghao Du ◽  
Qing Wang ◽  
Runmei Ma ◽  
Ying Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Environmental Public Health ◽  
Health Tracking ◽  
Environmental Public Health Tracking

scholarly journals Seeing Data in a New Light: Data Visualization Techniques to Improve Understanding

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon DeWitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Environmental Public Health ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Health Tracking ◽  
Environmental Public Health Tracking ◽  
Visualization Techniques

ObjectiveThe presenter will demonstrate complex health and environment surveillance data visualization techniques within the CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network.IntroductionIn 2002, the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) to address the challenges and gaps in the nation’s environmental health surveillance infrastructure. The Tracking Program’s mission is to provide information from a nationwide network of integrated health and environmental data that drives actions to improve the health of communities. As a primary objective of the Tracking Program, the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) was developed as an online surveillance system with data available for 23 topics and over 450 different health, environmental, and population measures. The integration and display of such disparate data can be challenging. For data consumers without scientific training, or even scientists and public health professionals with limited time, it can be difficult to examine and explore the data in an online surveillance system. Additionally, casual data consumers may not require complex data details; a big picture perspective may be appropriate to their needs. The Tracking Network – which applies standardized data, a modern user interface, techniques catering to a variety of data consumers, and best practices in data visualization – provides a dynamic data query system that allows users to visualize different types of environmental health data in numerous ways including a variety of charting, mapping, and graphing options.MethodsAfter the Tracking Program identifies important environmental health topics, data standards are developed to aid in data validation and to ensure consistency and comparability of the data. The data are aggregated into standardized stratifications, summarized, and used to calculate environmental health measures. Visualization requirements for each measure are determined and developed on the Tracking Network. In addition, public health content are developed to provide important context for the user. The final step is the release of the environmental health measures onto the National Tracking Network, where they can be queried, visualized, compared, and analyzed with all of the other environmental health measures on the Tracking Network.ResultsLaunched in 2009, the Tracking Network developed at CDC is home to over 450 standardized environmental health measures spanning 23 topics and multiple years, and can be displayed at a geographic level of state, county, and census tract. The Tracking Network allows data consumers to interpret this data visually using tools including dynamic timeline maps, infographics, advanced charting and a streamlined user interface designed to be simple to use. With varying user levels in mind, this collection of tools provides a variety of avenues for the users to explore the data. Visualization results can be exported and embedded into other websites with data interpretation statements, benchmarks, and other visual cues that allow a broad audience to be able to access to environmental public health surveillance data.ConclusionsWhile the internet contains a wealth of health and environmental datasets, the Tracking Network provides a centralized location to access over 450 environmental health measures and provides a variety of visualization tools to translate the data into useful information. The speaker will present a range of display options available on the Tracking Network, highlight ways to present data for easy understanding and consumption, and provide a brief look into the future of data visualization. 

scholarly journals Birth and Fetal Death Records and Environmental Exposures: Promising Data Elements for Environmental Public Health Tracking of Reproductive Outcomes

2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (6) ◽  
pp. 825-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Fitzgerald ◽  
Daniel Wartenberg ◽  
W. Douglas Thompson ◽  
Allison Houston
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Fetal Death ◽  
Birth Certificate ◽  
Environmental Exposures ◽  
Birth Certificates ◽  
Parental Occupation ◽  
Environmental Public Health ◽  
Health Tracking ◽  
Environmental Public Health Tracking ◽  
Data Elements

Objectives. We inventoried and reviewed the birth and fetal death certificates of all 50 U.S. states to identify nonstandard data items that are environmentally relevant, inexpensive to collect, and might enhance environmental public health tracking. Methods. We obtained online or requested by mail or telephone the birth certificate and fetal death record forms or formats from each state. Every state data element was compared to the 2003 standards promulgated by the National Center for Health Statistics to identify any items that are not included on the standard. We then evaluated these items for their utility in environmentally related analyses. Results. We found three data fields of potential interest. First, although every state included residence of mother at time of delivery on the birth certificate, only four states collected information on how long the mother had lived there. This item may be useful in that it could be used to assess and reduce misclassification of environmental exposures among women during pregnancy. Second, we found that father's address was listed on the birth certificates of eight states. This data field may be useful for defining paternal environmental exposures, especially in cases where the parents do not live together. Third, parental occupation was listed on the birth certificates of 15 states and may be useful for defining parental workplace exposures. Our findings were similar for fetal death records. Conclusion. If these data elements are accurate and well-reported, their addition to birth, fetal death, and other health records may aid in environmental public health tracking.

scholarly journals Electronic health record case studies to advance environmental public health tracking

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonza Namulanda ◽  
Judith Qualters ◽  
Ambarish Vaidyanathan ◽  
Eric Roberts ◽  
Max Richardson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Environmental Public Health ◽  
Health Tracking ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
Environmental Public Health Tracking
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