Health Data

The Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program gathers, analyzes and displays environmental health data to help people better understand relationships between health and the environment, promote health and well-being, and foster safe and healthy communities.

Health data can help draw connections between a disease or condition and environmental hazards or exposures. Some adverse health effects, like carbon monoxide poisoning, can have quick short-term harmful results and a clear cause. Other adverse health outcomes, like certain cancers, may take years or even decades to develop or may have multiple contributing factors. As a result, making connections between health problems and environmental hazards can be challenging. There is a lot that isn’t well understood, such as the suspected link between different types of cancers and exposure to contaminants in our environment.

Environmental Public Health Tracking Health Topics

Asthma

Asthma Data And Resources

Birth Defects

Data and resources on birth defects that might be related to the environment

Blood Lead Poisoning

Data on childhood lead poisoning, risk factors and resources

Cancer

Cancer data and resources

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning data and resources

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

COPD data and resources

Hyperthermia

Heat-related illness data, prevention tips and resources

Hypothermia

Cold-related illness data, prevention tips and resources

Mosquito-borne Disease

Mosquito-borne disease data, prevention tips and resources

Myocardial Infarction

Heart attack data and resources

Occupational Health

Occupational health data and resources

Reproductive Outcomes

Birth, pregnancy and fertility data and resources

Tickborne Disease

Tickborne disease data, prevention tips and resources

Additional Resources

• Podcasts: Environmental Health Chat

Missouri Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) is a program within the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. EPHT is part of a network of people and information systems which delivers a core set of health, exposure, and hazards data, information summaries and tools to enable analysis, visualization and reporting of insights drawn from data. Those insights are intended to help data drive actions and improve community health.