The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has unveiled an addition to its EHS website: resources organized by essential services. The CDC says it’s a place to find tools to help your program fill performance gaps and contribute to larger performance improvement efforts such as voluntary public health accreditation. This list provides our resources indexed by the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services.
To learn more about these services and other tools supporting environmental health involvement in performance improvement, explore the CDC's new performance improvement resource page.
1. Monitor environmental and health status to identify and solve community environmental public health problems
· Environmental Health Services Working With Water Programs to Promote Safe Drinking Water
· Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net)
· Environmental Health Specialists Network Information System
· Healthy Housing Inspection Manual
· Integrated Pest Management: Conducting Urban Rodent Surveys[PDF - 1.34 MB]
· National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS)
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental public health problems and health hazards in the community
· Environmental Investigations
· Healthy Housing Inspection Manual
· Integrated Pest Management: Conducting Urban Rodent Surveys[PDF - 1.34 MB]
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about environmental public health issues
· Drinking Water Advisory Communication Toolbox
· Environmental Health Specialists Network Plain Language Study Findings
· Healthy Housing Reference Manual
· Improving Environmental Public Health Services Performance to Meet Community Needs[PDF - 1.46 MB]
· Integrated Pest Management: Conducting Urban Rodent Surveys[PDF - 1.34 MB]
4. Mobilize community partnerships and actions to identify and solve environmental health problems
· Drinking Water Advisory Communication Toolbox
· Emergency Water Supply Planning Guide for Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
· Environmental Public Health Performance Standards (EnvPHPS) and the EnvPHPS Asessment Toolkit
· Healthy Housing Inspection Manual
· Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health
· Rodent Control After a Disaster
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community environmental public health efforts
· Drought Guidance for Public Health Professionals – When Every Drop Counts
· Emergency Water Supply Planning Guide for Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
· Guidance on Microbial Contamination in Previously Flooded Outdoor Areas
· Tools and Guidance for Environmental Health Practitioners
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect environmental public health and ensure safety
Note: EHSB/CDC is not a regulatory agency. The following EHSB resource may be useful for agencies responsible for enforcing laws and regulations.
· Prevention Status Report: Food Safety
7. Link people to needed environmental public health services and assure the provision of environmental public health services when otherwise unavailable
· Technical assistance requests and environmental investigations
8. Assure a competent environmental public health workforce
· Biology and Control of Insects and Rodents in partnership with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
· Biology and Control of Vectors and Public Health Pests: The Importance of Integrated Pest Management in partnership with NEHA
· Career Resource Guide for Uniformed Services Environmental Health Practitioners[PDF - 3.34 MB]
· Control of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Tickborne Diseases through Integrated Pest Management in partnership with NEHA
· Cooperative agreement with Association of Environmental Health Accredited Programs
· E-Learning on Environmental Assessment of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
· Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response
· Environmental Public Health Online Courses
· National Environmental Public Health Internship Program in partnership with NEHA
· Summer Program in Environmental Health (SUPEH)
· Training and Workforce Development Resources for Environmental Practitioners
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based environmental public health services
· Environmental Health Specialists Network Evaluation Project
· Environmental Public Health Performance Standards
· Improving Environmental Public Health Services Performance to Meet Community Needs[PDF - 1.46 MB]
· Logic Model to Improve Program Performance and Control Drinking Water Exposures
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental public health problems
· Environmental Health Specialists Network
· Environmental Health Specialists Network Food Safety Study Tools
· Food Safety Research Findings in Plain Language
· Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Research
· Practice-Based Research on Food Safety and Water Protection
