Environmental Public Health Tracking

The Connecticut Department of Public Health Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program is a part of a National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network with the goal of providing information that will allow our communities to take action to prevent and control environmentally-related health effects.
The goal of the EPHT Program is to protect and inform communities by providing our partners with information they can use to support their activities to prevent and control environmentally-related health illness. The Program involves the ongoing collection, integration, and analysis of data about environmental hazards, exposure to environmental hazards, and health effects potentially related to contact to those hazards. Users can explore information and view tables and charts about health and the environment in the state of Connecticut.
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Prepare Your Health: Personal Health Preparedness for People with Bleeding Disorders
March is Bleeding Disorders Month. Learn more about bleeding disorders, their symptoms, treatments, and how to prepare for emergencies on the Division of Blood Disorders website. Personal health preparedness and planning are important for everyone,...

Digging Out: 5 Ways to Prepare Your Health to Shovel Snow
Shoveling snow is strenuous exercise. Just the thought of moving hundreds of pounds of snow and slush is enough to make your legs prickle, to make your arms and shoulders burn, and to make your back tire. Shoveling snow is such strenuous exercise tha...

Service Beyond Oneself: MRC Volunteers Share Their 'Why'
The Martin Luther King (MLK) Day of Service is an opportunity to help "strengthen communities, bridge barriers, [and] create solutions to social problems" through volunteering. While there are many ways to strengthen your community, one way is to hel...

5 Practical Skills for the Holiday 'Host(ess) with the Mostest'
It's not easy playing the part of host or hostess with the "mostest" at the holidays. A lot of time, effort, and planning goes into making merry with family and friends. In all the excitement of getting the house and food ready for guests, honest mis...

Operation Shortbread Is Not Your 'Cookie Cutter' MCM Exercise
December 4 is National Cookie Day, which-from a public health perspective-is what makes the scratch-made story of Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services' Operation Shortbread a fitting one to tell this time of year. What do cookies ...

The Neighborly Thing To Do: States Helping States During Disasters
Since 9/11, the CDC's Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement program has been a critical source of funding, guidance, and technical assistance for state and local public health departments, helping to build and maintain a n...

Partnerships Help Save Lives When Disaster Strikes
Public health emergencies occur every day across the United States. Tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, infectious disease outbreaks, terrorist attacks, and other emergencies have all occurred within the past few years and likely will happen ag...

3 Reasons Why Handwashing Should Matter to You
Most of us are familiar with the parental-like voice in the back of our minds that helps guide our decision-making-asking us questions like, "Have you called your grandmother lately?" For many that voice serves as a gentle, yet constant reminder to w...

Protecting Our Future: Emergency Preparedness and Children's Mental Health
Among the many lessons learned during the 2017 Hurricane season, we recognized that addressing children's mental and behavioral health needs is a major concern in hurricane-affected areas. CDC's At Risk Task Force (ARTF) was established in 2017 to en...

These horrifying pollen clouds remind us it's allergy season
Pollen counts are increasing across the country in recent weeks forecasters at Pollen.com say, which means nearly 50 million Americans will suffer from some combination of a runny nose, watery, itchy eyes or sneezing as their allergy symptoms ramp up...

The US eliminated measles in 2000. The current outbreak could change that
here's a "reasonable chance" the United States will lose its measles elimination status in October because of ongoing measles outbreaks in New York, according to Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Na...

Deer can pass tuberculosis to humans, CDC says
Heads up, hunters: You can potentially contract tuberculosis from deer infected with the bacterial disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced. A 77-year-old Michigan man was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2017 after...

The end of seasonal flu shots? The Duke Vaccine Institute wins $400M in funding to develop alternative
Could the end to seasonal flu shots be in sight? Possibly, if Duke researchers have their way. The Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) landed multiple contracts totaling up to $400 million over seven years from the National Institute of Allergy an...

Deadly EEE: Parts of nation see worst outbreak of brain-swelling, mosquito virus in more than half-century
Three people have died in Massachusetts; three in Michigan, two, in Connecticut and one in Rhode Island. Most of the deaths occurred in recent weeks....