New Resources: State Profiles in Children's Environmental Health
See how your state stacks up!
We’re closing out Children’s Health Month by releasing a new suite of resources for children’s environmental health! We’re excited to announce our new state profiles for all 50 states.
The state profiles are a compilation of nation-wide information that allows state-by-state comparisons of uniformly defined data about environmental hazards, environmental exposures, and relevant children’s health outcomes. While select states have previously been released, this is the first time we’ve unveiled updated profiles across the country.
Decisions made at the state and local levels have a significant impact on environmental health protections and equity that our children need. For decision-makers to address children’s environmental health concerns in an informed way they must first understand the current state of issues in their jurisdiction.
Our state profiles are an answer to an existing gap in this process: there have historically been very few accessible sources of robust, regularly updated, and uniformly-defined state-level children’s environmental health indicators. CEHN is collecting and sharing the best available of these in our new resources.
Read state profiles and good-news spotlights at https://cehn.org/states