Camponeschi Jenny, Vogt Christy M, Creswell Paul D, Mueller Meridith, Christenson Megan, Werner Mark A
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, Environmental Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, Wisconsin (Mss Camponeschi, Vogt, Mueller, and Christenson and Drs Creswell and Werner); and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (Drs Creswell and Werner and Mss Mueller and Christenson).
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2017 Sep/Oct;23 Suppl 5 Supplement, Environmental Public Health Tracking:S72-S78. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000605.
The Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Wisconsin Tracking) compiles and provides data on health endpoints and related environmental exposures as a resource to local health departments, tribes, academia, and other stakeholders. The goal of providing these data is that stakeholders use them to develop projects that improve environmental health in their communities-that is, moving from "data to action."
To encourage use of Wisconsin Tracking data, we developed a minigrants program and issued a funding opportunity to local health departments and tribes. The opportunity requested proposals for small projects using our data, with the goal of making public health improvements in those communities. Wisconsin Tracking evaluated the minigrants program after its completion.
DESIGN/SETTING: Eight local health departments in Wisconsin were awarded up to $10 500 to develop and implement projects over a 9-month period.
Wisconsin Tracking created a funding opportunity announcement requiring utilization of our data to develop projects by local health departments in Wisconsin. We reviewed and scored applications, evaluating proposals on a range of criteria. During the 9-month project period, Wisconsin Tracking staff members provided a variety of technical assistance to grantees. An evaluation of the overall program followed.
Funded communities used Wisconsin Tracking data to improve public health infrastructure, leverage partnerships, establish new initiatives, respond to emergencies, improve communication with stakeholders and residents, and make a variety of public health improvements in their communities.
Efforts to increase use of our data catalyzed development of small-scale environmental health projects. This minigrants program was successful at building relationships between local health departments and Wisconsin Tracking, increasing awareness of Wisconsin Tracking data and resources, and contributing to numerous documented public health improvements throughout Wisconsin.
威斯康星州环境公共卫生追踪项目（威斯康星追踪项目）收集并提供有关健康终点及相关环境暴露的数据，作为当地卫生部门、部落、学术界及其他利益相关者的资源。提供这些数据的目的是让利益相关者利用它们开展项目，以改善其社区的环境卫生，即从“数据到行动”。
为鼓励使用威斯康星追踪项目的数据，我们制定了一个小额赠款项目，并向当地卫生部门和部落发布了资金申请机会。该机会要求提交使用我们数据的小型项目提案，目标是在这些社区改善公共卫生。威斯康星追踪项目在完成后对小额赠款项目进行了评估。
设计/地点：威斯康星州的八个当地卫生部门获得了高达10500美元的资金，用于在9个月内开展并实施项目。
威斯康星追踪项目发布了一项资金申请公告，要求威斯康星州的当地卫生部门利用我们的数据开展项目。我们对申请进行了审查和评分，根据一系列标准评估提案。在9个月的项目期间，威斯康星追踪项目的工作人员为受资助者提供了各种技术援助。随后对整个项目进行了评估。
获得资助的社区利用威斯康星追踪项目的数据改善公共卫生基础设施、利用伙伴关系、开展新举措、应对紧急情况、改善与利益相关者和居民的沟通，并在其社区进行了各种公共卫生改善。
增加我们数据使用的努力促进了小规模环境卫生项目的发展。这个小额赠款项目成功地建立了当地卫生部门与威斯康星追踪项目之间的关系，提高了对威斯康星追踪项目数据和资源的认识，并为威斯康星州各地众多有记录的公共卫生改善做出了贡献。
