Resources

This page includes a tool kit about the 10 essential services) of environmental public health, additional resources such as web links, and success stories from agencies that have incorporated one or more of the 10 essential services.

CDC established a Web-based collaboration site, which serves an open forum for sharing and posting tools and resources related to EnvPHPS. To access the site, send an e-mail that includes your name and full contact information to ehsb@cdc.gov.

Toolkit

Essential Service 1: Monitor Environmental and Health Status

Design of systems: CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Examples of indicators: CDC Environmental Public Health Indicators Project
Working group on using environmental health indicators
Creating a Community Environmental Health Assessment (CEHA) or Profile (CEHP)
Example of CEHP [PDF - 5.63 MB]

Essential Service 2: Diagnose and Investigate Environmental Health Problems and Health Hazards

Example of a foodborne illness protocol [PDF - 71 KB]

Essential Service 3: Inform, Educate, and Empower People About Environmental Health Issues

Examples of topic fact sheets: Fish consumption guidelines [PDF - 117 KB]
Examples of how PACE EH can be used to inform and empower people

Essential Service 4: Mobilize Community Partnerships

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
PACE EH
State environmental health legislation and statutes database compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures

Essential Service 5: Develop Policies and Plans

State environmental health legislation and statutes data base compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures:

Essential Service 6: Enforce Laws and Regulations

Essential Service 7: Link People to Services

Essential Service 8: Assure a Competent Workforce

Nontechnical environmental health core competencies: (includes technical competencies and content areas covered by the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian (REHS/RS) exam and other valuable information on competencies of EH practitioners
National Environmental Health Workforce Consortium Innovative Workforce Practices Project: identifies and promotes practices to strengthen the workforce

Essential Service 9: Evaluate the Effectiveness, Accessibility, and Quality of Services

Online training module on program evaluation in environmental health

Essential Service 10: Research for New Insights and Innovative Solutions

Model and promising environmental health practices

Additional Resources

National Center for Environmental Health
National Environmental Health Association
National Association of County and City Health Officials
American Public Health Association
The National Conference of Local Environmental Health Administrators: collection of papers  by Larry J. Gordon on a wide variety of environmental health topics.

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