What are environmental public health tracking (EPHT) indicators, and why look at them?
A. EPHT indicators represent an attempt to establish standardized measures of particular environment and health conditions across many states, where all participants use the same calculation methods. The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network has identified and generated a common set of indicators and measures in several topic areas related to environment and health. These topics include, among others, air quality, asthma, cardiovascular disease, childhood lead exposure, and drinking water. These core EPHT indicators make it possible to look up a particular health statistic and compare those statistics across counties of similar size in different states. See the About This Project page for a list of the core EPHT indicators currently available on the Washington Tracking Network. Although the data used to generate the EPHT indicators are not new – public health has been conducting this surveillance for many years – the EPHT indicators and measures are pre-calculated to make it eas
