Health outcomes
Published statistics on pregnancy, birth and infant outcomes, released by public health agencies at state and county level.
Infant & Environmental Health Atlas
Every community deserves to see what public data records.
This Atlas brings published health statistics and public environmental records onto one map, by place and over time, so anyone can see what has been documented about the places they live in.
Every figure comes from a public source, is shown at area level only, and is labelled with its period, version and limits. Patterns here raise questions. They never prove cause.
Why this exists
The information already exists, but it is scattered: health statistics sit in one agency's release, cleanup sites in another's register, wells and permits in a third, each with its own format, period and caveats. Putting them in one place, honestly labelled, lets people ask better questions of the public record — and see plainly where that record stops.
Environmental records
Public registers of cleanup sites, industrial facilities, wells, mines, permits and reported releases.
Time and place
The same measure across years and across the country, so a place can be read in its own context.
Sources and resources
Every layer carries its source and release stage, alongside a labelled library of documentation and research.
Start with a place. Follow the public record.
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Start with a place
Search a state or county, or move across the national view.
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Choose what to look at
Pick a published health measure, a period, and the record layers you want visible.
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Read the figure
See what the number means, how certain it is, and how it compares nationally.
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Follow the record
Open the public records nearby, check their sources, and find local resources.
United States
Published area-level rates, one colour band per range.
What the map can show
What agencies have published for a place
Area-level rates and counts exactly as their source released them, with the period and version shown.
Where documented records sit
Locations and identifiers of sites and facilities that appear in public federal and state registers.
How a place compares
A county next to its state and the national figure, with the uncertainty around small numbers made visible.
How things changed over time
The same measure across the years each source actually covers — no gaps quietly filled in.
What it cannot show
These are rules the Atlas is built around, not warnings added afterwards.
- It cannot show that anything here caused anything else. Patterns across places are a starting point for research, not a finding.
- It cannot describe any individual. Every figure is an area-level statistic; no person, family, address or record is shown or reconstructed.
- It cannot estimate anyone's exposure. Living inside a county says nothing about what any household breathed, drank or touched.
- It cannot fill in what a source withheld. Where a value is suppressed for small counts, it stays unpublished here.
For people who need it
Families
See what the public record says about your area, in plain language, without alarm and without guesswork.
Schools and students
A calm, source-labelled way to learn how public health and environmental data are recorded and read.
Researchers
Reproducible views, documented methods, confounder-aware tools and exportable provenance.
Journalists
Traceable figures with their source, period and limitations attached, ready to verify before you publish.
Public-health teams
Compare places, review coverage gaps and see which records exist for the areas you serve.
Library and support
Documentation, research and support routes, each labelled by what kind of source it is. Journalism, books and podcasts are kept as context — they are never used as numbers on the map.
Infant sleep and SUID/SIDS
Official guidance and definitions
Infant mortality and birth outcomes
How the measures are defined
Pregnancy and maternal health
Context from public agencies
Birth defects
Surveillance programmes and reviews
Air quality
Monitoring, standards and research
Drinking water
Systems, testing and contamination
Fracking, oil and gas
Registers, studies and investigations
Reading map data responsibly
Limits, suppression and uncertainty
Grief and community support
Support routes, not data
If you are worried about your family, start with your clinician and your state or local health department; they can act on concerns about drinking water, air quality or a specific site. This Atlas holds no information about you and cannot assess anyone's risk.
“One candle can light ten thousand.”
Health & Environment Atlas is built in the belief that clearer public information can help communities ask better questions, find trusted resources, and create change together.
Begin with what is documented.
Open the map for a place you care about, or read the material behind it first.