Environmental Health (Print Version)

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Environmental Health

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Latest News

Pediatricians Need More Training on Environmental Health (10/21/2004, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2004/niehs-21.htm

From the National Institutes of Health

Children’s Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/ceh/home.htm
Environmental Diseases from A to Z (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/a2z/home.htm
Also available in Spanish - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/espanol/a2z/home.htm
Family Guide -- 20 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/scene/adult/home.htm
New Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/ead/ead.htm
Tox Town (National Library of Medicine) - Requires Flash Player - http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

Overviews

Help Yourself to a Healthy Home (Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) - Links to PDF File - http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/healthyhomes/healthyhomebook.pdf

Diagnosis/Symptoms

Hair Sample Testing: What Can Hair Sampling Results Tell Me About Environmental Exposures? (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/hair_analysis/03-0330HairSampleTesting-Community.pdf

Specific Conditions

Environmental Virtual Campus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - http://www.c2e2.org/evc/home.html
Frequently Asked Questions About Drycleaning (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/garment/ctsa/factsheet/ctsafaq.htm
Also available in Spanish - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/dfe/pubs/garment/dcfaq/dc_faq.htm

Prevention/Screening

HealtheHouse (Children's Health Environmental Coalition) - http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/virtualhouse/index.asp
Read the Label First! Protect Your Garden (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/labeling/rtlf/garden.pdf
Read the Label First! Protect Your Household (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/labeling/rtlf/home.pdf
Read the Label First! Protect Your Pet (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/labeling/rtlf/pets.pdf

Related Issues

Backyard Burning: Human Health (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/backyard/health.htm
Beach Pollution (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://epa.gov/beaches/learn/pollution.html
Before You Go to the Beach... (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/30cwabeach.pdf
Choosing Where You Live: A Consumer Self Help Guide to the U.S. and U.S. Territories (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/tolive.html
Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/swerrims/cleanup/index.html
Depleted Uranium (DU) (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/DU.pdf
Exposure (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) - Links to PDF File - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/COM/exposure.pdf
Also available in Spanish - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/es/COM/es_exposure.html
Exposure Pathways (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/posters/Exposure.pdf
Exposure Pathways of Hazardous Substances (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/er/hazsubs/pathways.htm
Find Your Beach: Beach Advisories and Closings (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water) - http://oaspub.epa.gov/beacon/beacon_national_page.main
Frequently Asked Questions about Waste (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/basifact.htm
Global Warming: Impacts -- Health (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ImpactsHealth.html
Household Hazardous Waste (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/househld/hhw.htm
Also available in Spanish - http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/general/espanol/f92031s.htm
Household Products Database (National Library of Medicine) - http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/
Landfill (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/landfill.htm
Questions and Answers about Dioxins (Food and Drug Administration) - http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/dioxinqa.html
ToxFAQs (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html
Also available in Spanish - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/es/toxfaqs/
TOXNET Databases (National Library of Medicine) - journal citations and data files on toxicology and related subjects - http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
Wastes from Health-Care Activities (World Health Organization) - http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs253/en/
What Are Endocrine Disruptors? (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/edspoverview/whatare.htm
What are PCBs? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/PCBSML.pdf
What Is Benzene? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/benzsml.pdf
What Is Dioxin? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/Dioxsml.pdf
What Is Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/MTBESML.pdf
What Is Perchloroethylene (Perc)? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/PERCsml.pdf

Research

Cadmium Studies Suggest New Pathway to Human Cancer (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/newpath.htm
Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/translat/children/children.htm
Children’s Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/ceh/home.htm
Dioxin Research (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/dioxin.htm
First Human Study to Show Benefits to Newborns from Federal Ban on Home Use of Two Insecticides (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2004/niehs-23.htm
How Do You Study Environmental Health? (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/fshow.htm
National Children's Study (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/
National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (National Center for Environmental Health) - http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
NIEHS and UNC to Collaborate on Registry of 20,000 Subjects to Relate Gene Variants and Environmental Disease (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/polyreg.htm
Pediatricians Need More Training on Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2004/niehs-21.htm

Genetics

Scientists Identify Genes That Regulate Allergic Response to Diesel Fumes (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2004/niaid-08.htm

Dictionaries/Glossaries

ATSDR Glossary of Terms (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/glossary.html
Also available in Spanish - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/es/es_glossary.html
Glossary of Children's Environmental Health Terms (Children's Environmental Health Network) - http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/glossary.html
Terms of Environment (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/ocepa111/OCEPAterms/

Directories

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) - http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html

Organizations

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
Also available in Spanish - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/es/es_index.html
Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Children's Health Protection - http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/
National Center for Environmental Health - http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/
Also available in Spanish - http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/spanish/
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
Also available in Spanish - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/espanol/home.htm
National Toxicology Program - http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/

Law and Policy

What Is the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program? (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/triinter/whatis.htm

Statistics

Envirofacts Data Warehouse (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html
Environmental Disparities (American Public Health Association) - Links to PDF File - http://www.apha.org/NPHW/facts/Enviro-PHW04_Facts.pdf
FASTATS: Environmental Health (National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/environ.htm

Children

America's Children and the Environment (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children/
EPA Student Center (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/students/
Explorers' Club (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/kids/
Global Warming Kids Site (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/index.html
Healthy Environments for Children (Pan American Health Organization) - Links to PDF File - Large file - http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/whd03_monica.pdf
Help Yourself to a Healthy Home: Protect Your Children's Health (Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, University of Wisconsin) - Links to PDF File - http://www.uwex.edu/homeasyst/pdf/HHbook.pdf
Kids 'n' the Environmental Health Sciences (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/fskids.htm
Learn about Chemicals Around Your House (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs) - http://www.epa.gov/kidshometour/
National Center for Environmental Health Kids' Page (National Center for Environmental Health) - http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/kids/99kidsday/default.htm
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Kids' Pages (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm
Also available in Spanish - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kidspan/home.htm
Read the Label First! Protect Your Kids (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/labeling/rtlf/kids.pdf
What's Up With Our Nation's Waters? (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water) - Links to PDF File - http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/waters.pdf

Teenagers

High School Environmental Center (Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/highschool/
It's Your Scene, Teen -- 21 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/scene/teen/home.htm

You may also be interested in these MedlinePlus related pages:

Air Pollution - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/airpollution.html
Drinking Water - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drinkingwater.html
Electromagnetic Fields - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/electromagneticfields.html
Indoor Air Pollution - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/indoorairpollution.html
Molds - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/molds.html
Noise - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/noise.html
Occupational Health - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/occupationalhealth.html
Pesticides - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pesticides.html
Radiation Exposure - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/radiationexposure.html
Poisoning, Toxicology, Environmental Health - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/poisoningtoxicologyenvironmentalhealth.html

The primary NIH organization for research on Environmental Health is the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/

Page last updated: 08 November 2004
Topic last reviewed: 01 April 2004