Key points
The Environmental Public Health Practice Gateway features environmental health projects that were successful in the field. Learn about the practices included in the Gateway, and access related resources from CDC and partners.
Included practices
For the Environmental Public Health Practice Gateway, we selected projects as examples of environmental public health practice that were successful in the field. We based our selection on these four domains:
- Effectiveness: Did the practice solve or help solve the environmental health problem?
- Feasibility: What conditions and resources are needed to use this practice (such as funding, technical knowledge in certain areas, equipment)?
- Sustainability: Is the practice realistically able to continue going forward (for example, can the practice be incorporated into existing processes)?
- Transferability: Could other health departments use this practice with little to no changes (for example, outreach campaign promoting testing private well water)?
CDC funding supported the initial practices, including the following programs:
Resources from CDC and partners
- 10 Essential Public Health Services (CDC)
- Connecting environmental public health with the revised 10 Essential Public Health Services (CDC column in Journal of Environmental Health)
- Environmental Public Health Practice Gateway (CDC)
- Model Practices Program (National Association of County and City Health Officials)
- Pillars of governmental environmental public health: A guide to scalable environmental public health programs (National Environmental Health Association)
Content Source
National Center for Environmental Health
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