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CEHI launches website for the Community Assessment Project -- March 05, 2009

On March 3rd CEHI launched a new website for the Community Assessment Project. The purpose of Community Assessment Project (CAP) is to better understand the relationship between the built environment and health, and to provide Durham residents with maps of the built environment to support resident efforts to improve their quality of life.

The CAP website describes the purpose of the project and offers many features:

community members can download a full report of the findings of the CAP
community members can download individual thematic maps of built environment variables
users can open a web-based map application to add data layers, pan and zoom, query data layers, and create personalized maps

The website is a tool for CEHI to disseminate and share the results for the CAP with interested community members. The CAP is funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the Southern Center for Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (SCEDDBO).

Visit the CAP website here: cehi.env.duke.edu/cap/

Other links:
SCEDDBO: cehi.env.duke.edu/sceddbo/
US EPA: es.epa.gov/ncer/childrenscenters/index.html

CEHI is a research, education, and outreach program committed to fostering environments where all children can prosper.