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The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burdens through the lenses of human health and health quity. This is a cached map service used for displaying the Social Vulnerability Module layer in the EJI Web Mapping Application located at https://eji.cdc.gov. |
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The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burdens through the lenses of human health and health quity. This is a cached map service used for displaying the Social Vulnerability Module layer in the EJI Web Mapping Application located at https://eji.cdc.gov. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Environmental Justice Index (EJI)</SPAN><SPAN> is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burdens through the lenses of human health and health equity.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The EJI delivers a single rank for each community to identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of environmental burdens. Social factors such as poverty, race, and ethnicity, along with pre-existing health conditions may increase these impacts. This tool helps public health officials prioritize action for those communities most in need. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The EJI presents data for each census tract in the continental United States. Census tracts are the smallest subdivisions of land for which data are consistently available. Each census tract represents a community and is home to an average of 4,000 people. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The data used in the EJI comes from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation, OpenStreetMap, the U.S. Geospatial Survey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>In addition to delivering a single environmental justice rank for each community, the EJI also ranks communities on each of the four modules in the tool (social vulnerability, environmental burden, health vulnerability, and climate burden) and allows more detailed analysis within these modules. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Read and fully comprehend the sources, scale, accuracy, currency, and other available metadata information prior to use. Confirm you are using the most recent copy of the data and metadata. Acknowledge the originator when using the data. The findings and conclusions in these data are those of the authors (data preparer) and do not necessarily represent the official position of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This content should not be used for determining legal boundary locations, surveying, navigation, engineering, or uses other than general reference. These data are available to the public with the constraints described herein.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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