Knowledge: environmental health
See Also:
- health → conditions and diseases → allergies
- health → medicine → medical specialties → pulmonary medicine
- health → occupational health and safety
- health → public health and safety
- regional → north america → united states → government → agencies → independent → environmental protection agency
- science → agriculture → pests and diseases
- science → biology → ecology → ecotoxicology
- science → biology → microbiology → environmental microbiology
- science → environment → hazardous waste
- science → technology → acoustics, ultrasound and vibration
- science → technology → safety engineering
- society → issues → environment → food and drink
- society → issues → environment → health
Links
- Longitudinal Cohort Study of Environmental Effects on Child Health and Development
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/despr/cohort/index.htm - News and information about progress of this U.S. government initiative.
- Trade Secrets - A Moyers Report
http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets - PBS investigative report by Bill Moyers about how human health and safety have been put at risk by the chemical industry. Includes documents obtained during a lawsuit against chemical companies. Advocates citizen action.
- Institute of Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Erfurt, Germany
http://www.med.uni-jena.de/ark/start.html - Discusses the institute's background and current and past projects. Indoor air quality is a particular focus. Bilingual site has more extensive information in Deutsch than in English.
- Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane/Xavier Universities.
http://www.cbr.tulane.edu/ - Provides information about the CBR and its mission to conduct and coordinate research and teaching to enhance global understanding of environmental issues and provide solutions through innovative communication and technology.
- Environmental Change and Human Health in Countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
http://www.sei.se/newreport.html - Report by Stockholm Environmental Institute concludes that "old" problems of inadequate water, poor sanitation, smoky dwellings, and a lack of food, together with changes in the world economy pose a more obvious threat in these countries than does global climate change.
- Fiberglass Information Network
http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/fin/ - Information on the health hazards of respirable, durable mineral fibers. Victims' stories, symptoms, background, identification and clean up tips.
- Global Warming Could Worsen Allergies, Study Finds
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/081700sci-environ-climate.html - NY Times article about study on potential for global climate change to increase the prevalence of ragweed. [Subscription required - free.]
- National Center for Environmental Assessment (U.S. EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/ncea/ - National resource center for the overall process of human health and ecological risk assessments; the integration of hazard, dose-response, and exposure data and models to produce risk characterizations.
- International Society of Exposure Analysis
http://www.iseaweb.org/ - Fosters and advances the science of exposure analysis related to environmental contaminants, both for human populations and ecosystems. Includes conference announcements, newsletter, journal information, and other topics.
- Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services: Environmental Health Resources
http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/eh/index.htm - Collection of fact sheets, other information materials, and links on diverse topics, including toxic chemicals, radiation, eating safe fish, indoor air, EMF, drinking water, lead poisoning, and treated wood products.
- Health and Environment Research
http://earthtrends.wri.org/ - World Research Institute research into the interaction between human disease, pollution, and large-scale environmental, development, and demographic changes.
- National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/ - CDC National Center for Environmental Health report of ongoing assessment of the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring.
- European Environment Agency
http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/human - Collection of indicators, reports, links, data sets and targets on European human health topics related to the environment.
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