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California Environmental Health Tracking Program
California Department of Public Health
850 Marina Bay Pkwy
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| GIS for Community Impact in Breast Cancer: April 14th Workshop in Oakland, CA |
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On April 14, 2015, Zero Breast Cancer will host an interactive workshop on "GIS for Community Impact: From Technology to Translation" in Oakland, CA. The workshop will focus on using place-based data to inform breast cancer research and interventions. CEHTP will be presenting our work alongside other breast cancer researchers and advocates. Dr. Paul English will demonstrate various CEHTP tools for exploring data on cancer, drinking water quality, air quality, and pesticide usage, along with the strengths and limitations of the data sources. Dr. Eric Roberts will discuss the issues surrounding identification of areas with elevated breast cancer rates and present
the results of CEHTP's California Breast Cancer Mapping Project.
The workshop is designed for a range of audiences, including advocates, researchers, public health professionals, public policy leaders, health educators, and community members. The goal is not only to educate, but to generate ideas and partnerships for breast cancer studies, using GIS technologies and community-engaged or CBPR approaches. Additionally, a short-course will be offered on April 13th, providing hands-on training for using GIS software to explore geographic data for chronic diseases like cancer. More information and registration details are available online.
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| CDPH Launches Open Data Portal |
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In August 2014, CDPH launched an
Open Data Portal
to provide data on a variety of topics, including California demographics, health outcomes, health care quality, and population statistics. The concept behind "open data," as with environmental health tracking, is to make data more readily accessible to the public in easy-to-download, machine-readable formats, enabling users to create their own unique visualizations.
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| Nationwide Successes in Environmental Public Health Tracking |
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Learn about the wide range of accomplishments by tracking programs in different states and at the national level in the March/April Supplement of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. In the technology section, CEHTP's effort to develop the Water Boundary Tool (WBT) and interest in expanding the WBT to other states is described. The WBT was developed by CEHTP to map the geographic areas served by each water system in California. For more information, visit the tool, explore the WBT public data, or view past newsletter articles on its purpose and use.
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Virtual Conference on Environmental Public Health Tracking: May 13-14
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Register now for a virtual conference hosted by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Environmental Health Tracking Program. The conference will
- Increase awareness and knowledge about the role of environmental hazards in asthma and other chronic diseases and highlight the utility of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network in addressing these public health issues
- Promote collaboration between public health leaders, subject matter experts and practitioners at state health departments across the US and US territories
- Provide a forum for public health leaders, subject matter experts and public health practitioners at state health departments to share best practices and lessons learned
Conference content will include topics such as asthma, air quality, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, health equity and the environment, and others. Learn more about the conference online.
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Center for Regional Change Launches a New Tool: Regional Opportunity Index
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Building thriving communities and regions requires strategic investment towards people and places facing the greatest need. To guide such investments, the
UC Davis Center for Regional Change
(which is directed by CEHTP advisory group member Jonathan London)
launched a new California statewide interactive mapping tool:
the Regional Opportunity Index (ROI)
. The ROI is designed to help business, government, and civic leaders strategically target resources and policies towards the most vulnerable communities. The web-based mapping tool:
- Incorporates detailed information about a wide variety of factors at a census-tract-level
- Identifies communities with high levels of vulnerability, and those with greater social and economic opportunity
- Allows exploration of patterns between different factors (e.g. employment rates and pollution levels) among rural, suburban, and urban communities
Tutorials on the ROI are also available online.
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