The topic for today’s #PoweredByTracking Tracking Awareness Week discussion is the Tracking Network’s role in using data to affect policy or improve processes!
One of our goals here at Tracking is to disseminate information to guide policy, practice, and other actions to improve the nation’s health.
The Tracking Network has been used to:
- Identify people at risk for a health problem that can get worse from an environmental exposure.
- Protect public health through education, interventions, or policies.
- Save money by improving the speed and accuracy of public health activities and responses.
Data that is #PoweredByTracking has led to policy and process changes that have improved public health. Here’s just a few examples:
- The Oregon Tracking Program provided data and technical support to better define smoke intrusion. This new definition lead to revised policy, where prescribed burning events longer than one hour trigger requirements to develop a community response plan to notify residents and support actions to avoid health impacts.
- The Utah Tracking Program supplied Tracking data to inform elementary school recess guidance updates during poor air quality days.
- California’s Tracking Program used Tracking Network data to characterize agricultural use near schools, and this study resulted in new state regulations and local policies to limit pesticide use near schools to protect students and staff.
Read more success stories on how state and local tracking networks have informed policy change.
Get Involved
Has Tracking Data helped pass an environmental health policy in your area? Has having environmental and health data together in the same place helped you or your organization save time and money? Join the #PoweredbyTracking conversation on Facebook and Twitter.
We have daily prompts and graphics to use on your social media posts throughout Tracking Awareness Week. Let us know how you have used the Tracking Network!
RSVP for our Twitter Chat on Thursday, July 9 at 2pm ET. You can use #TrackingChat to ask questions and engage in conversations with Tracking staff, funded state/local health departments, and partners. Preview the questions and learn more on how to participate!
Has Tracking Data helped pass an environmental health policy in your area? Has having environmental and health data together in the same place helped you or your organization save time and money? Join the #PoweredbyTracking conversation on Facebook and Twitter.
We have daily prompts and graphics to use on your social media posts throughout Tracking Awareness Week. Let us know how you have used the Tracking Network!
RSVP for our Twitter Chat on Thursday, July 9 at 2pm ET. You can use #TrackingChat to ask questions and engage in conversations with Tracking staff, funded state/local health departments, and partners. Preview the questions and learn more on how to participate!
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