Healthcare DIVE August 11, 2022
The index is the latest initiative by the HHS which, with the CMS, has increasingly framed climate change as a public health issue.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity on Wednesday launched an environmental justice index, the latest initiative by federal healthcare agencies to place heightened importance on climate change and health equity issues.
The Environmental Justice Index, developed in partnership with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, analyzes cumulative environmental factors at the individual census tract-level so local public health officials “can identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of environmental burden,” according to the HHS release.
“Too many communities across our...
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