53AE6A65-E2C4-4B84-B012-66BC473F5C04 eng utf8 dataset National Geospatial Support Team U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park OEI RTP NCC GIS USEPA Mailroom N127-02 Research Triangle Park NC 27711 geoservices@epa.gov https://intranet.epa.gov/rtpgis website information pointOfContact 2021-06-17 NAP - Metadata 1.2 geometryOnly 3141 EPSG:4326 USEPA Environmental Quality Index (EQI) and Associated Domain Indices by County for the United States 2000-2005 Original 2016-06-22 publication Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) Epidemiologist pointOfContact The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) in the Environmental Public Health Division (EPHD) is currently engaged in research aimed at developing a measure that estimates overall environmental quality at the county level for the United States. This work is being conducted as an effort to learn more about how various environmental factors simultaneously contribute to health disparities in low-income and minority populations, and to better estimate the total environmental and social context to which humans are exposed. This dataset contains the finalized Environmental Quality Index (EQI), and an index for each of the associated domains (air, water, land, built environment, and sociodemographic environment). Indices are at the county level for all counties in the United States. Indices are at the county level for all counties in the United States for 2000-2005. To summarize environmental quality for each county of the United States; to compare environmental profiles across US counties; use as a broad environmental exposure variable for health studies; use to control for co-occurring environmental hazards when attempting to isolate the effect of a single factor. US EPA NHEERL EPHD Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) Epidemiologist pointOfContact Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) Epidemiologist lobdell.danelle@epa.gov publisher irregular Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) Epidemiologist pointOfContact Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay Watershed Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas United States Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming place EPA Place Names 2015-01-31 publication Air Environment Exposure Indicator Land Water theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus 2007-11-02 publication 020:053 theme Federal Program Inventory 2013-09-16 publication None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. EPA Public Domain License licenseUnrestricted https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html unclassified eng utf8 true -138.21454852 -12.68151645 6.65223303 61.7110157 2000-01-01T00:00:00 2005-12-31T00:00:00 1) The data used to create the index attempted to balance quality measurement with geographic breadth of coverage - index does reasonable job estimating the general environment, but be less useful for estimating specific environments. 2) Not all relevant environmental exposures are necessarily included in the index. Data inclusion is dependent on data collection and coverage; if relevant data are not being collected, the exposure will not be captured in the EQI. 3) In areas where little data collection occurs the data may be over representing the environmental profile of those areas. For example, a county that contains a national park without data collected and a town with data collection will be solely represented by the town area, though that may be inaccurate for the entire county. 4) Focused solely on the outside environment, which may not be the most relevant exposure in relation to human health and disease. 5) Population-level analyses offer little predictive utility for individual-level risk. Therefore, while the index may be useful at identifying less healthy environments, it will not be useful for predicting adverse outcomes. https://gisstg.rtpnc.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/ORD/EnvironmentalQualityIndex_2000_2005_Original/MapServer webService https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/NHEERL/EQI download asNeeded 2022-10-19