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Utah Environmental Public Health Tracking Program

Indicator Reports and Custom Queries

Utah's Environmental Public Health Tracking Program uses the Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health (IBIS-PH) to disseminate Tracking data. Information in IBIS-PH can be found in 3 forms: written reports, indicator reports, and custom queries.

Indicator reports that are part of the Tracking Network were chosen primarily by national workgroups composed of experts in each area. The primary contributors to these health events, such as heart attacks, asthma attacks, or birth outcomes, are behavioral and genetic. However, there is also some evidence that environmental hazards may play a role in these health outcomes. The selection of environmental hazards was based on scientific evidence suggesting a link between exposure to the contaminant and poor health outcomes.

Utah’s Tracking Network includes a variety of indicator reports and custom queries. The following is a linkable list of Utah's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network indicator reports:

Air Quality: Ozone
Air Quality: PM2.5
Asthma: Adult Prevalence
Asthma Hospitalizations
Asthma Related Emergency
Department Visits
Birth Defects: Congenital Heart Defects
Birth Defects: Down Syndrome
Birth Defects: Gastroschisis
Birth Defects: Hypospadias
Birth Defects: Infant Mortality
Birth Defects: Neural Tube Defects
Birth Defects: Orofacial Clefts
Birth Defects: Overall
Birth Rates
Bladder Cancer
Blood Lead in Adults
Blood Lead in Children
Breast Cancer Deaths
Breast Cancer Incidence
Cancer Deaths
Cancer of the Brain and Central Nervous System
Carbon Monoxide: Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits

Carbon Monoxide Deaths
Carbon Monoxide: Poison Control Exposure
Drinking Water: Arsenic
Drinking Water: Nitrates
Drinking Water: Public Water System Use
Fetal Mortality
General Fertility Rate
Hazardous Substance Releases
Heart Attack: Emergency Department Visits
Heart Attack: Hospitalizations
Infant Mortality
Leukemias
Low Birth Weight
Lung Cancer Deaths
Lung Cancer Incidence
Neonatal Mortality
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Preterm Birth
Radon
Sex Ratio at Birth
Thyroid Cancer
Very low Birth Weight
Very Preterm Birth

Data Partners

Where does the data come from? There are three main types of Tracking Data, hazard data such as chemicals and pollutants, exposure data from computer modeling or biomonitoring, and health effect data. In order to make the Tracking Network a reality, data partnerships had to be formed with a variety of data owners who are willing to share their data. These partnerships are vital to the success of the Tracking Network.

Utah’s data partners include:

State Tracking Networks

Utah's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network is part of a national initiative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because of this, there is a National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network as well as a variety of state Environmental Public Health Tracking Networks. The CDC just added six more tracking states in 2009, Colorado, Kansas, Lousiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Vermont To access these resources, click the linkable pictures below

California	Connecticut	Florida	Maine
Maryland	Massachusetts	Missouri	New Hampshire
New Jersey	New Mexico	New York City	New York State
Oregon	Pennsylvania	Washington	Wisconsin

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