What to know
Health departments: Explore practices to solve environmental health problems in your jurisdiction. Other environmental health programs created and successfully used these practices in the field.
How to use these resources
Use and scale these field-tested practices in your community to save time, learn from others, and increase your impact. These practices can help you deliver the 10 Essential Public Health Services and link to public health accreditation.
Each practice summary includes key actions, successes and challenges, and resources and templates. We also include information on how effective, feasible, transferable, and sustainable the practice is. CDC funding supported the initial practices, including our Environmental Health Capacity and Environmental Health Specialists Network programs.