The Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program at the Kentucky Department for Public Health provides
information and data about how the environment affects human health.
Use this website to answer questions about air quality, drinking water,
cancer, and a wide variety of other topics.
At this website you may:
- Explore health and environmental data by topic, county, and year.
- Generate custom tables, charts, and maps.
- View reports for certain environmental hazards, exposures, and health
effects in Kentucky.
- View trends in data over time.
- Find links to national and Kentucky-specific resources on health and
environmental topics.
See the
Contents and Usage
page for more information.
About Kentucky Environmental Public Health Tracking
The Kentucky Environmental Public Health Tracking Program provides a public
web-based application for health and environmental data dissemination.
Kentucky is part of the
National
Tracking Network, created in partnership with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide data about environmental hazards,
exposures and health effects. Please see the
What
is Environmental Public Health Tracking? page for more information.
Children's Environmental Health Summit
The Kentucky Department for Public Health, in collaboration with the Kentucky Population Health Institute, WEDCO District Health Department,
and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Department of Environmental Health hosted the 3rd annual
Children's Environmental Health Summit on October 11th, 2018. The summit was funded through by the Environmental Public
Health Tracking Program with additional funding from the Kentucky Environmental Lead Program, the Kentucky Asthma Program, and the Kentucky Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. For more information on the summit, and updates on future events click
here.
Getting Started
The tabbed navigation menu located toward the top of this page is organized by
the types of content available on this site. Use that navigation menu or the Search bar to find what you are looking for. See the
Contents and Usage
page for additional explanations about the information available on this site.
Questions, Concerns, and Feedback
Please feel free to
contact us
if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions. Your feedback is very
valuable to us; it will help us provide a site that meets your data needs.
