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Healthy Housing in Rural Communities
We have partnered with the National Center for Healthy Housing to improve healthy housing and address environmental health hazards that impact the home, including issues that impact the indoor environment, the surrounding outdoor spaces, and...
Water Webinar Series
This four-webinar series highlights recreational water illness, the changes to the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC), and implementation of the new MAHC.Recreational Water IllnessesApril 27, 2023Over the last 20–30 years, CDC has led efforts to d...
Legionella
The rate of reported legionellosis cases has increased by nearly five and a half times since 2000. Legionella is bacteria that is naturally-occurring in fresh water aquatic systems and becomes a risk when it enters human-made water and plumbing ...
Healthy Homes Webinars
Lead Poisoning Prevention in Indian CountryThis is a 1-hour virtual training to educate the environmental public health workforce on lead exposure hazards and population health risks and disparities in Indian Country.View Recording View Slides P...
Healthy Homes
Housing plays a central role in the health of our communities, particularly as the environmental health workforce works to help communities adapt and respond before, during, and after weather events like extreme heat, extreme cold, hurricanes, f...
Health Impact Assessment Toolkit
Health impact assessment (HIA) bring together scientific data, health expertise, and public input to identify the potential—and often overlooked—health effects of proposed new laws, regulations, projects, and programs. HIA is commonly defined as...
Harmful Algal Blooms
Rapid algae overgrowth can result in harmful algal blooms (HABs). Blooms can be both toxic and non-toxic but always have a detrimental effect on marine life in the affected area. Algal blooms most often occur in still or slow-moving water and ar...