Wisconsin Tracking Program
Website: dhs.wisconsin.gov/ephtexternal icon
Email: dhstracking@wi.gov
Mission:
Wisconsin has a long tradition of strong local health departments committed to protecting people in their communities. Every day local health departments address a wide range of environmental health concerns, such as drinking water contamination, lead poisoning, and Lyme disease. The Wisconsin Tracking Program assists local health departments in tackling these issues by:
- Hosting a cutting-edge environmental public health data portal
- Developing and disseminating County Environmental Health Profiles
- Creating fact sheets, toolkits, videos, and other resources
- Offering technical assistance in epidemiology, communications, and evaluation
Quick Stats:
- In Wisconsin, four in ten householdspdf iconexternal icon rely on private wells for their drinking water.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning became a reportable acute condition in 2018 and an improved surveillance system is now in place.
- One in four Wisconsin homes were built before 1950, a key risk factor for childhood lead poisoning.
- Wisconsin is among the 14 states that account for 95% of all Lyme disease cases.
Wisconsin Tracking supports more nationally-accredited health departmentsexternal icon than any other Tracking grantee.
Milestones:
Important events and achievements of the tracking program
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2002
Wisconsin Tracking Program established with CDC funding
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2003-2006
Worked with CDC and other recipient tracking programs to establish nationally consistent data and measures
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2007
Launched the first version of the WI Tracking site
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2008
Published Wisconsin’s first County Environmental Health Profilesexternal icon
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2015
Launched new WI Tracking siteexternal icon which can display sub-county dataexternal icon
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2011
Worked with local and academic partners to develop a prototype for the Wisconsin Private Well Water Viewerexternal icon
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2015
Released a statewide carbon monoxide poisoning alert system
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2015
Began funding nearly three dozen mini-grantspdf iconexternal icon for communities to conduct local environmental health projects
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2015
Started to fun annual mini-grantspdf iconexternal icon for communities to conduct local environmental health projects
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2018
Worked with partners to make carbon monoxide poisoning a reportable acute condition in the state
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2019
Launched the first municipal-level topic on Wisconsin Tracking site: alcohol outlet densityexternal icon
Unique Data:
In addition to the set of standard data collected and displayed by all state and local tracking programs, individual programs may host data that are important to their populations.