Nationally Consistent Data & Measures

Environmental Public Health Tracking

The CDC envisioned the EPHT network to be a secure web-based, distributed network of standardized electronic health and environmental data.  Eight content work groups were established, and each provided recommendations to CDC for indicators and measures as well as the data sets and methods that would be required to create the recommended measures.

These work groups included content experts from: grantee states, cities and academic partners; CDC; other government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and non-governmental organizations including the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN), the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR).

This collaborative process required the work groups to:

• Identify and recommend core measures for the National Tracking Network;
• Examine the availability and applicability of existing data and identify approaches for deriving or collecting needed data;
• Identify and adapt standards and guidelines to facilitate nationally consistent data collection and ensure compatibility with existing standards efforts;
• Recommend metadata elements to describe data quality;
• Identify and recommend methods and tools for data integration, analysis and presentation.
  
  

Birth Defects

• PH-BD-Schema.zip
• col_bd1 080714.csv
• col_bd2 080714.csv
• col_bd3 080714.csv
• col_bd4 080714.csv
  
  

Hospitalizations

• PH-HOSP-Schema.zip
• colu_ami080716.csv
  
  

Drinking Water Quality

• ENV-DWQM-Schema.zip
• pdw_yearlyfix 080718.csv
• pdw_xml 080718.csv
• pdw_yearly_fix 080718b.csv
• dbp_quarterly_fix 080718.csv
• arsenic_fix 080718.csv
• arsenic_xml 080718.csv
  
  

NCDM Metadata

• NCDM_Metadata.zip

 

 

 

 

 

 

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