Data Resources
One-Stop Shop for Environmental Public Health Data
This Web site provides a reference list of nationally funded data systems that have a relationship to environmental public health. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory. Rather, it highlights the major data systems with a national scope where public health and environmental data can be directly downloaded from the Internet.
Health Data
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
- Asthma Data, Statistics, and Surveillance
- Childhood Lead Poisoning Data & Surveillance Resources
- National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
- National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
- National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Biomonitoring Data
CDC
- National Report on Biochemical Indicators of Diet and Nutrition (CDC’s Second Nutrition Report)
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
- National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
CDC’s National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals provides an ongoing assessment of the U.S. population’s exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. The Report presents nationally representative and cumulative biomonitoring data gathered from 1999-2000 through 2017-2018 and includes exposure data for more than 400 chemicals.
Environmental Data
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA Air Data
EPA Multimedia Data
EPA Toxics Data
EPA Ambient Water Data
- Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH)
- Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results (WATERS)
EPA Drinking Water Data
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Other Data
Census Bureau
Query Engines
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
CDC
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- CDC Wonder
- United States Cancer Statistics (USCS)
- Work Related Injury Statistics Query System (Work-RISQS)
- Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
EPA
- AirData
- Air Information Retrieval System AQS
- AIRNow
- Envirofacts Data Warehouse
- EnviroMapper
- MyEnvironment
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo)
- Surf Your Watershed
- TRI Explorer