Explore Additional Resources

The Community Health and Environment initiative presents additional resources that can be leveraged to address the impact of environment on the health of your community. Use these resources to dive deeper into data collection and evaluation, planning and partnerships, internal organizational alignment and more.

  • Environmental Information Hub — Provides essential environmental data, products and services to help decision-makers across sectors operate more efficiently and safely while addressing specific environmental challenges.
  • National Risk Index for Natural Hazards — Interactive data set and online tool from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that allows visualization of the risk to most U.S. communities from 18 hazard types, such as flooding and wildfires.
  • Tree Equity Score — Assesses how well the benefits of urban trees, shade and clean air are reaching communities. Helps community members create a data-driven plan to improve the “tree equity score” in their neighborhood.
  • 5 Steps to Building Environmental Resilience — Empowers health officials to develop strategies and programs to help communities prepare for health impacts of weather and the environment.
  • Building Resiliency and Partnerships with Tribal Communities — Tools and case studies for hospitals and tribal communities to address environmental impact on health.
  • U.S. Environmental Resilience Toolkit — Designed to help individuals, communities and health care organizations better understand and address the impacts of the environment on health and support resilience planning and decision-making.