NACCHO’s Role Environmental Public Health Tracking

MN EPHT Facilitated DiscussionMay 15, 2012

Overview

• NACCHO activities

• Key informant interview summary report

• Key recommendations for bridging the gap between state and local

health departments

• NACCHO workgroup recommendations

• Leveraging efforts

State Tracking Program

LHDS

LHDs

LHDs

NACCHO Activities

• Conducting key informant interviews

• Hosting webinars

• Providing feedback on new tracking resources

and features

• Convening NACCHO’s Environmental Public

Health Tracking Workgroup

• Promoting Tracking resources

• Hosting facilitated discussions

EPHT

NACCHO Workgroup Recommendations

• Link tracking resources to county health rankings

• Provide more localized data

• Link data to voting precincts

• Directly connect with community nurses,

environmental health specialists, etc.

• Tie into community assessment processes

(e.g. PACE-EH, MAPP)

• Seek to expand range of data in portal that reflects the

scope of work of LHDs

• Provide for educating local policy makers

• Develop culture that expects coordination/cooperation

between state and local health departments

Webinars

Environmental Public Health Tracking and Health Impact Assessments

• April 12, 2012 (Archived)

• Overview of HIA

• Online Tool for Tracking Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollutants – CDC

• Estimating Morbidity and Mortality Attributable to Air Pollution – NYC

• HIA of a Proposed Cap-and-Trade Framework – California

Environmental Public Health Tracking and Children’s Health

• June 1, 2012, 1:30-3:00 PM ET

• Overview of Children’s Health Module – CDC

• Asthma and Outdoor Quality – Florida

• Childhood Lead Poisoning – Maine

Leveraging Efforts

• Mobilizing for Action through Planning

and Partnerships (MAPP) Process

• Protocol for Assessing Community

Excellence in Environmental Health

(PACE-EH)

• Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

• Accreditation

Key Informant Interviews: Barriers

• Lack of localized data

• Linkages among hazards, exposure,

and health outcomes not clear enough

• Insufficient time and staff capacity

• Uncertainty about the application of

tracking data and resources

Key Informant Interviews: Recommendations

• Develop and enhance localized data

• Provide specific programmatic examples

• Connect with community health assessments

and health impact assessments

• Market to specific capacity and size of LHD

workforces

• Provide plain language communication

materials

• Support LHDs building local portals

Bridging Gap Between State/Local Health Departments

• Workgroups

• Facilitated discussions

• In-person meetings

• State-wide meetings

• Direct and in-person trainings

• Mini grants

• Mechanism for LHDs to collect tracking data

• Site visits

• Direct communicationsState

Tracking Program

LHDS

LHDs

LHDs

Questions?

For more information about NACCHO’s Tracking Project, go to:

• Becky Johnson (rjohnson@naccho.org; 202-507-4284)

• Amy Chang (achang@naccho.org; 202-507-4221)

• Jennifer Li (jli@naccho.org; 202-507-4242)

• http://www.naccho.org/org/topics/environmental/EPHT/index.cfm