Environmental Public Health Tracking: Resources and Publications
Find newsletters, surveillance briefs, success stories, publications, and more on this page from the Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.
Newsletters
Surveillance briefs
- Wisconsin Influenza Vaccine Update: 2019-2021, P-03324 (PDF)
- Outdoor Air Pollution in Wisconsin: Fine Particulate Matter, P-03322 (PDF)
- COPD Morbidity and Mortality in Wisconsin, P-03319 (PDF)
- Adult Lead Poisoning in Wisconsin: Sources, Prevention, and Intervention, P-03115 (PDF)
- Extreme Cold in Wisconsin: Trends, Surveillance, and Prevention, P-02577 (PDF)
- Extreme Heat: Who's at Highest Risk, P-02386 (PDF)
- What's in Your Water? A Look at Private Well Water Quality in Wisconsin, P-01830 (PDF)
- Health Disparities in Wisconsin Hospitalizations for Asthma, P-01727 (PDF)
- Lyme Disease Trends in Wisconsin, P-01295 (PDF)
- An Invisible Killer: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Wisconsin, P-01071a (PDF)
- Heat Stress in Wisconsin: Resources and Opportunities for Action, P-01071 (PDF)
- Ultraviolet Radiation and Wisconsin: Opportunities to Reduce Wisconsin Youth Exposure (PDF)
- Lung Cancer Risk and Radon in Wisconsin: The Need for Increased Testing and Improved Reporting (PDF)
Outreach materials
Asthma
Cancer Concerns
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Residences: Information for Landlords, P-02936 (PDF)
- Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Residences: Information for Tenants, P-02935 (PDF)
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Data Byte Video
- Ice Arena Air Quality (access fact sheets for parents and coaches)
- Protecting Your Family from Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet, P-01569 (PDF)
- Signs and Symptoms of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, P-01029 (PDF)
- Staying Safe from Carbon Monoxide While Boating, P-02211 (PDF)
- Using Generators Safely Fact Sheet, P-01561 (PDF)
For more information on carbon monoxide poisoning, please see the carbon monoxide webpage.
Childhood Lead Poisoning
Heat Safety
Lyme Disease
Outdoor Air Pollution
Program Resources
Recorded webinars
- 2020-09-10—Information Systems to Advance Environmental Justice
- 2019-05-07—Lyme Disease Prevention Tools and Tips 2019 Pep Rally
- 2019-03-13—Taking Action with Data: A Closer Look at Well Water Quality
- 2018-11-20—Taking Action with Data: A Closer Look at Carbon Monoxide
- 2018-07-10—Reporting Carbon Monoxide
- 2018-05-03—Lyme Disease Prevention Tools and Tips 2018 Pep Rally
- 2018-01-17—On Alert: Monitoring Wisconsin Carbon Monoxide Poisonings with an Active Alert System
- 2016-02-18—Breathing Easy: Monitoring Air Quality in Ice Arenas
Partners and links
- Well Water Quality Viewer
- Wisconsin Climate and Health Program
- Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies (UW-Madison)
- Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
- Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene
- Department of Natural Resources Air Quality Data
- Survey of the Health of Wisconsin Data
- National Environmental Public Health Tracking
Near real-time data resources
- Wisconsin Flood Risk Mapping Application (Wisconsin Department of Health Services)
- Wisconsin Restaurant Inspection Data (Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection)
- Weekly Respiratory Virus Report (Wisconsin Department of Health Services)
- Beach advisories (Great Lakes Beach Health Initiative)
- Air quality monitoring (AirNow)
We collect success stories from communities that have integrated Environmental Public Health Tracking data and resources into their work. If you have a story to share, please let us know!
Increased Alcohol-Related Mortality in Wisconsin Pre-COVID: A Two-Decade Trend.
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2022
Measuring work-related risk of COVID-19: comparison of COVID-19 incidence by occupation and industry - Wisconsin, September 2020-May 2021.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2022
Fish consumption and advisory awareness in the Great Lakes basin.
Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Assessment of extreme heat preparedness in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2021, Volume 120, Number 3
Fish consumption and awareness of fish advisories among Burmese refugees: A respondent-driven sampling study in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Environmental Research, 2021, Volume 197
Pulmonary illness related to E-cigarette use in Illinois and Wisconsin - final report
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020, Volume 382, Number 10
Adult asthma control and self-management, Wisconsin 2012–2016
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 4
Survey of radon testing and mitigation by Wisconsin residents, landlords, and school districts
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 4
E-cigarette product use, or vaping, among persons with associated lung injury - Illinois and Wisconsin, April-September 2019
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2019, Volume 68, Number 39
Severe pulmonary disease associated with electronic cigarette product use - interim guidance
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2019, Volume 68, Number 36
Carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning cases in Wisconsin, 2006-2016
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 1
Exposures to opioids among Wisconsin children and adolescents, 2002-2016
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2019, Volume 118, Number 1
Extreme heat: Who's at highest risk?
Minnesota Medicine, 2019, Volume 102, Number 3
Notes from the field: Occupational carbon monoxide exposure in an industrial kitchen facility - Wisconsin, 2017
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2018, Volume 67, Number 28
Occupational mercury exposure at a fluorescent lamp recycling facility - Wisconsin, 2017
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2018, Volume 67, Number 27
An occupational legacy: Malignant mesothelioma incidence and mortality in Wisconsin
Journal of Occupation and Environmental Medicine, 2018, Volume 60, Number 12
Lead exposure among workers at a shipyard—Wisconsin, 2015-2016
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2018, Volume 60, Number 10
Taking action with data: Improving environmental public health at the community level
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017, Volume 23, Number 1
Improving outreach and surveillance efforts following a large-scale carbon monoxide poisoning in Wisconsin
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017, Volume 23, Number 1
Heat vulnerability index mapping for Milwaukee and Wisconsin
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017, Volume 23, Issue 4
Drinking-water treatment, climate change, and childhood gastrointestinal illness projections for northern Wisconsin (USA) communities drinking untreated groundwater
Hydrogeology Journal, 2017, Volume 25, Issue 4
Occurrence of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) and human infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Wisconsin, 2008-2015
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2017, Volume 54, Number 3
Notes from the field: Occupational lead exposures at a shipyard - Douglas County, Wisconsin, 2016
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2017, Volume 66, Number 1
Electronic cigarette exposure: Calls to Wisconsin Poison Control Centers, 2010-2015
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2016, Volume 115, Number 6
Exposure to elevated carbon monoxide levels at an indoor ice arena - Wisconsin, 2014
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2015, Volume 64, Number 45
Using environmental public health tracking to identify community targets for public health actions in childhood lead poisoning in Wisconsin
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2015, Volume 21, Supplement 2
Heat stress illness hospitalizations - Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, 20 states, 2001-2010
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2014, Volume 63, Number 13
Heat-related fatalities in Wisconsin during the summer of 2012
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2013, Volume 112, Number 5
Private drinking water quality in rural Wisconsin
Journal of Environmental Health, 2013, Volume 75, Number 7
Environmental health indicators of climate change for the United States: Findings from the State Environmental Health Indicator Collaborative
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2009, Volume 117, Number 11
Measuring the environmental health of Wisconsin's counties
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2008, Volume 107, Number 4
Using a partnership barometer to evaluate environmental public health tracking activities
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2008, Volume 14, Number 6
Effective environmental public health surveillance programs: A framework for identifying and evaluating data resources and indicators
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2008, Volume 14, Number 6
Evaluation of five data sources for inclusion in a statewide tracking system for accidental carbon monoxide poisonings
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2006, Volume 105, Number 2
Linking childhood cancer with potential environmental exposure determinants
Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2006, Volume 105, Number 2
Wisconsin's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network: Information systems design for childhood cancer surveillance
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004, Volume 112, Number 14
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