Environmental health outcomes

Our environment - the world around us - affects our health. Here are datasets on health outcomes that people experience that may be linked to the environment.

Some of these have clear links to the environment, like lead poisoning. Others have some uncertain links, and are still being investigated and understood.

But while specific health outcomes may have stronger or weaker links to the environment, the environment’s overall effect on our health is clear - we know that one of the strongest predictors of health is where you’re born. For example, significant disparities in premature mortality closely align with neighborhoods that were redlined nearly 100 years ago - showing the effect that disinvesment, racism, and inequality have on public health.