Through existing structures such as the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, ACPP will access data and measures of environmental health status throughout local, state, and federal levels and expand to include measures of vulnerability and climate policy interventions relevant to Austin.
Kass, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, 253 Broadway, CN-34C, New York, NY 10007 USA.
Whether school-based asthma surveillance would be as successful in other states is an important question to resolve in order to meet the long-term goal of developing a national environmental public health tracking program.
CDC established the National Environmental Public Health Tracking program in fiscal year 2002 and has since provided funding for 21 states, three cities, three centers of excellence (universities that provide technical assistance and research support for the development of the tracking network), and several national organizations to conduct activities in support of the development of a national environmental public health tracking network.
