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The Community Health and Environment toolkit offers a practical framework for organizations that want to examine the emerging connections between hazardous weather and health, learn from peers across the field, and integrate hazardous weather considerations and actions into existing community health, emergency preparedness and operational strategies.

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Fill out this form to express interest in the Community Health and Environment toolkit, which seeks to help hospitals and health systems strengthen existing processes by integrating hazardous weather risks and related health, operational and utilization impacts into existing community health assessments and preparedness planning.

 

Explore Additional Resources

  • 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.
  • 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.