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American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Committee on Environmental Health
The Committee on Environmental Health advises the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on issues pertaining to environmental health and toxic exposure. Committee policy statements address such issues as lead poisoning, radon exposure, pesticides, and clean air. The Committee also supports legislative initiatives designed to protect the health of the fetus, infant, and child from debilitating or hazardous environmental agents.
American Council on Science and Health – Environmental Health
The American Council on Science and Health is a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. Its publications include peer-reviewed reports on health and environmental topics. The environmental health page features the following topics: Press Releases; Publications; Editorials; and Priorities Magazine Articles.
Centre for Environmental Health, Windsor, Ontario
CEH of Ontario is a community-based non-profit organization that assesses possible human health effects due to environmental pollution. CEH supports research, public education, and prevention programs. The site provides links to CEH Ontario services, related news and events, and ongoing studies and projects. The site offers “Community Concerns” forms for people to email CEH about their environmental health concerns.
Children’s Environmental Health Network
The Children’s Environmental Health Network is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose purpose is to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and to promote a healthy environment. This site provides easy access to information about the network, links to information aimed specifically at children’s environmental health, a resource guide on children’s environmental health, calendar of upcoming conferences, a downloadable training manual on pediatric environmental health that can be used by health care facilities to educate employees about pediatric environmental health, and a link to the U.S. Policy on Children’s Environmental Health homepage. In addition, contact information for the network is displayed on the page.
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) – Environmental Health
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health is the result of a combination of organizations who joined forces to provide end-users a place on the World Wide Web to access reliable consumer health information. The organizations involved are The City University of New York Office of Library Services (CUNY), The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), The New York Academy of Medicine Library (NYAM), The New York Public Library (NYPL), The Queens Borough Public Library, and The Brooklyn Public Library. NOAH provides a Glossary of Environmental Health Terms at this link.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Health Fish, Healthy Families
The Environment and Health Program was established to expand the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) mission to encompass new challenges to human health posed by contamination of the environment due to human activities. Specific issues that have been addressed include medical waste incineration and dioxin, pesticides, safe food and drinking water, clean air and water, and children’s environmental health.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) – Air Pollution and Health
This is a direct link to the PSR’s Air Pollution and Health page.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) – Safe Drinking Water
The Environment and Health Program was established to expand the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) mission to encompass new challenges to human health posed by contamination of the environment due to human activities. This is a direct link to the PSR’s Healthy Fish, Healthy Families page.
The Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS)
The AEHS was created to facilitate communication and foster cooperation among professionals concerned with the challenge of soil protection and cleanup. AEHS members represent the many disciplines involved in making decisions and solving problems affecting soils, including chemistry, geology, hydrogeology, law, engineering, modeling, toxicology, regulatory science, public health, and public policy. AEHS activities-including national and international workshops, seminars, and conferences, and the development and distribution of published materials-encourage dialogue among disciplines, industries, sectors of society and the economy, and countries. Helpful links available on this site include state surveys, where the searcher can view soil and groundwater cleanup standards for the years 1998-2001. This site also provides links to state and governmental environmental health agencies and associations.
World Health Organization (WHO) – Protection of the Human Environment (PHC)
This site links to topics addressed by the World Health Organization to help its member states and populations in making organizations and individuals aware of their responsibility for health and its environmental basis. Protection of the human environment health topics contained in this site are air quality, chemical safety, children’s environmental health, global environmental change, environmental burden of disease, electromagnetic fields, environmental health impact assessment, ionizing radiation, occupational health, ultraviolet radiation, and water, sanitation, and health. The site also provides environmental health related fact sheets and press releases.
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