Health Topics

Environmental Health

Health information topics about Environmental Health:

Children

    1. Environmental Health Issues
    Nemours Foundation
    http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/home/environ.html

    2. EPA Student Center
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/students/

    3. Global Warming Kids Site
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/index.html

    4. Learn about Chemicals Around Your House
    Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs
    http://www.epa.gov/kidshometour/

    5. National Center for Environmental Health Kids'
    National Center for Environmental Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/kids/99kidsday/default.htm

    6. National Institute of Environmental Health Science
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm

    7. Read the Label First! Protect Your Kids
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/labeling/rtlf/kids.pdf

    8. Environmental Kids Club
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/kids/

    9. What's Up with Our Nation's Waters?
    Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/waters.pdf

    10. Children’s Environmental Health
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/ceh/home.htm

    11. America's Children and the Environment
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children/

    12. Healthy Environments for Children
    Pan American Health Organization
    http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/whd03_monica.pdf

Dictionaries/Glossaries

    1. ATSDR Glossary of Terms
    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/glossary.html

    2. Terms of Environment
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/ocepa111/OCEPAterms/

    3. Glossary of Children's Environmental Health T
    Children's Environmental Health Network
    http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/glossary.html

Directories

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

Law and Policy

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

National Institutes of Health

    1. Environmental Diseases from A to Z
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/a2z/home.htm

    2. Family Guide -- 20 Easy Steps to Personal Environm
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/scene/adult/home.htm

    3. TOXMAP
    National Library of Medicine
    http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp

    4. Tox Town
    National Library of Medicine
    http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

    5. New Environmental Health
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/ead/ead.htm

Organizations

    1. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

    2. Environmental Protection Agency

    http://www.epa.gov/

    3. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Childre

    http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

    4. National Institute of Environmental Health Science

    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/

    5. National Toxicology Program

    http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/

    6. National Center for Environmental Health

    http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/

Overviews

    1. Help Yourself to a Healthy Home: Protect Your Chil
    Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, University of Wisconsin
    http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/healthyhomes/healthyhomebook.pdf

Related Issues

    1. What Is Dioxin?
    Navy Environmental Health Center
    http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/Dioxsml.pdf

    2. Before You Go to the Beach...
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/30cwabeach.pdf

    3. Questions and Answers about Dioxins
    Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
    http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/dioxinqa.html

    4. List of Cancer-Causing Agents Grows
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Toxicology Program
    http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2005/niehs-31.htm

    5. Global Warming: Impacts -- Health
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ImpactsHealth.html

    6. Frequently Asked Questions About Drycleaning
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/garment/ctsa/factsheet/ctsafaq.htm

    7. Find Your Beach: Beach Advisories and Closings
    Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
    http://oaspub.epa.gov/beacon/beacon_national_page.main

    8. Exposure
    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/COM/exposure.pdf

    9. Environmental Virtual Campus
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    http://www.c2e2.org/evc/home.html

    10. Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/swerrims/cleanup/index.html

    11. Choosing Where You Live: A Consumer Self Help Guid
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/tolive.html

    12. Beach Pollution
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://epa.gov/beaches/learn/pollution.html

    13. ToxFAQs
    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html

    14. TOXNET Databases
    National Library of Medicine
    http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

    15. What Is Perchloroethylene (Perc)?
    Navy Environmental Health Center
    http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/PERCsml.pdf

    16. What Is Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)?
    Navy Environmental Health Center
    http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/MTBESML.pdf

    17. What Is Benzene?
    Navy Environmental Health Center
    http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/benzsml.pdf

    18. What Are PCBs?
    Navy Environmental Health Center
    http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/PCBSML.pdf

Research

    1. National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental
    National Center for Environmental Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/

    2. How Do You Study Environmental Health?
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/fshow.htm

    3. Hair Sample Testing: What Can Hair Sampling Result
    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/hair_analysis/03-0330HairSampleTesting-Communi...

    4. Benzene Causes Lowered Blood Cell Counts in Worker
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/Benzene

Statistics

    1. Environmental Disparities
    American Public Health Association
    http://www.apha.org/NPHW/facts/Enviro-PHW04_Facts.pdf

    2. FASTATS: Environmental Health
    National Center for Health Statistics
    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/environ.htm

    3. Envirofacts Data Warehouse
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html

Teenagers

    1. High School Environmental Center
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/highschool/

    2. It's Your Scene, Teen -- 21 Easy Steps to Per
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/scene/teen/home.htm

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