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Texts:
- Bates, D.V. Environmental
Health Risks and Public Policy - Decision Making in Free Societies. Seattle, WA:
University of Washington Press. 1994. ISBN: 0-295-97337-4.
- Berglund, M.,
Elinder, C-G. and L. Jarup. Human
Exposure Assessment - An Introduction WHO/SDE/OEH/01.3. Geneva, Switzerland:
World Health Organization. 2001.
- Breyer, S. Breaking
the Vicious Circle - Toward Effective Risk Regulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press. 1993. ISBN: 0-674-08115-3.
- Carson, Rachel.
Silent Spring. 1962. A pioneering work that every environmental health student
should read at some point in their career.
- Coggon, D. Epidemiology for the Uninitiated,
4th Edition. London, UK: BMJ Publishing Group. 1997
- Cothern, C.R.
and N.P. Ross (Eds.) Environmental Statistics, Assessment, and Forecasting. Boca
Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers. 1994. ISBN: 0-87371-936-0.
- Duffy, John. The
Sanitarians - A History of American Public Health. Urbana, IL: University of Chicago
Press. 1990. ISBN: 0-252-01663-7
- Fineberg, H.V.
and P.C. Stern (Eds.) Understanding
Risk - Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society. Washington, DC: National
Academy Press/National Research Council,. 1996.
- Florida
Department of Health. Surveillance and control of selected arthropod-borne diseases in
Florida. Tallahassee FL: Florida Department of Health – Bureau of Epidemiology.
2000.
- Galishoff,
Stuart. Newark - The Nation's Unhealthiest City 1832-1895. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press. 1988. ISBN: 0-8135-1281-6.
- Garrett,
Laurie. The Coming Plague. New York NY: Penguin Books. 1994.
- Goldstein, I.F.
and M. Goldstein. How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2002. ISBN:0-19-513994-1.
- Graham, J.D.
and J.B. Wiener (Eds.) Risk vs. Risk - Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the
Environment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1995. ISBN:
0-674-77304-7.
- Hallenbeck,
W.H. Quantitative Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health - 2nd
Edition. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers. 1993. ISBN: 0-87371-801-1.
- Hamilton, James
T. and W. Kip Viscusi. Calculating Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of
Hazardous Waste Policy. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 1999.
- Institutes of
Medicine. Emerging Infections: Microbial threats to health in the United States.
Washington DC: National Academy Press. 1992.
- IPCS. Principals for
the Assessment of Risk to Human Health from Exposure to Chemicals - Environmental Health
Criteria Document 210. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. 1999.
ISBN: 92-4-157210-8.
- Kammen, D.M.
and D.M. Hassenzahl. Should we Risk It?: Exploring Environment, Health, and
Technological Problem Solving. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999.
ISBN 0691004269.
- Koren, H. and
M. Bisesi. Handbook of Environmental Health and Safety, Principals and Practices, 3rd
ed. Boca Raton FL: CRC Lewis Press. 1996.
- Lave, Lester R.
and Arthur C. Upton (Eds). Toxic Chemicals, Health, and the Environment.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. ISBN: 0-8018-3473-2.
- Moeller, Dade. Environmental
Health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1997. ISBN: 0-679-25859-2. A highly
regarded text, but a little dated.
- Moore, Gary S. Living with the Earth,
Concepts in Environmental Health Science. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers/CRC
Press. 1999. ISBN: 1-56670-357-3.
- Nadakavukaren,
Anne. Our Global Environment – A Health
Perspective - Fifth
Edition. Prospect Heights IL: Waveland Press, 2000
- National
Research Council, Environmental
Epidemiology, Volume 1: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes. Washington, DC:
National Academy Press. 1991.
- National
Research Council, Environmental Epidemiology,
Volume 2: Use of the Gray Literature and Other Data in Environmental Epidemiology. Washington, DC:
National Academy Press. 1997.
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. Washington,
DC: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. 2001.
- Paustenbach,
D.J. (Ed.) The Risk Assessment of Environmental Hazards. New York, NY: John Wiley
& Sons. 1989. ISBN: 0-471-84998-7.
- Ropeik,
David and George Gray. Risk! A Practical Guide for Deciding What's
Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You. Boston,
MA: Houghton Millflin Company. 2002. ISBN: 0-618-14372-6.
- Rosen, George. A
History of Public Health, Expanded Edition. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1958, 1993.
- Spellman,
Frank, R. Drinking Water Handbook. Lancaster, PA: Technomic Publishing. 2000.
- Tchobanoglous, G.H., H. Theisen and S. Vigil. Integrated Solid Waste Management: Engineering
Principles and Management Issues. New York NY: McGraw-Hill. 1993.
- The
Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management. Framework for
Environmental Health Risk Management. Washington, DC: P/CCRARM. 1997.
- Upton, Arthur
C. and Eden Graber (Eds). Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment - The New York
University Medical Center Family Guide - How to Identify, Prevent or Minimize
Environmental Risks to Your Health. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. 1993. ISBN:
0-671-76815-8. An excellent plain language guide to the topic.
- Yassi, Annalee;
Kjellstrom, Tord; De Kok, Theo; and Tee Guidotti. Basic Environmental Health.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2001. ISBN: 0-19-513558-X.
Related
Articles and Documents:
- Ames, B.N. and L. Swirsky Gold. Misconceptions About
Environmental Pollution, Pesticides and the Causes of Cancer. Dallas, TX: National
Center for Policy Analysis. March 1998.
- Ames, B.N. and L. Swirsky Gold. Paracelsus
to parascience: the environmental cancer distraction. Mutation Research Frontiers 447(2000)
3-13.
- Appell,
D. The New Uncertainty Principle
- For complex environmental issues, science learns to take a backseat to political
precaution Scientific American. January 2001.
- Baram,
M. Risky Business.
Environmental Health Perspectives 104(10): 1040. October 1996.
- Blodgett, J.E. Environmental, Health, and Safety
Tradeoffs: A Discussion of Policymaking Opportunities and Constraints. Washington, DC:
Congressional Research Service Report for Congress RL30043. February 1, 1999.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. Exposure
History Questions
-
Center for Mental Health
Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Communicating
in a Crisis: Risk Communication - Guidelines for Public Officials.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2002.
- Food Safety
Council, The Professional’s Guide
to Food Safety and Sanitation
- Graham, J. Comparing
Opportunities To Reduce Health Risks: Toxin Control, Medicine and Injury Prevention.
Dallas, TX: National Center for Policy Analysis. June 1995.
- Greenberg,
G. Internet
resources for occupational and environmental health professionals. Toxicology
178(2002) 263-269.
- Kelly, K.E. The Myth of 10(-6) As a
Definition of Acceptable Risk. Crystal Bay, NV: Delta Toxicology Inc. June 1991.
- Monosson,
E. Chemical
Mixtures: A review of the evolution of toxicology and chemical regulation
from a single chemical approach to a science and regulatory process that
must address complex chemical mixtures. South Hadley, MA: Military Waste
Cleanup Program Mount Holyoke College November 2003.
- Ott, W.R. and
J.W. Roberts. Everyday Exposure
to Toxic Pollutants. Scientific American. February 1998.
- Schierow, L-J. IB94036: The Role of Risk
Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection. Washington, DC:
Congressional Research Service Report for Congress. September 6, 2001.
- World Health
Organization. Considerations
in evaluating the cost effectiveness of environmental health interventions,
WHO/SE/WSH/00.10. Geneva, Switzerland. 2000.
- World
Health Organization. Healthy
villages: a guide for communities and community health workers. Geneva, Switzerland.
2002.
- World
Health Organization. Water
Quality - Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of Risk and Risk
Management for Water-Related Infectious Disease. Geneva, Switzerland. 2002.
- World
Health Organization. WTO
Agreements and Public Health - a joint study by the WHO and WTO Secretariat,
Geneva, Switzerland. 2002.
- World
Health Organization. The
World Health Report 2002. Geneva, Switzerland. October 2002.
Societies
and Organizations:
- American Association of Occupational
Health Nurses, An association for registered nurses specializing in occupational care.
- American
Association for Health Education (AAHE)
- American
Association of Public Health Physicians
- American
Board for Occupational Health Nurses
- American
College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
- American
College of Radiology
- American
Council on Science and Health, An organization that often takes a
contrarian view of environmental health dangers
- American
Board of Preventive Medicine
- American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists, An association that "advances worker health
and safety through education and the development and dissemination of scientific and
technical knowledge."
- American
Industrial Hygiene Association and the American Board of Industrial Hygiene
- American
Public Health Association, An association with a mission to "continue
to strive to improve public health for everyone."
- American
School Health Association
- American
Society of Safety Engineers
- American Water Works Association, An association
“dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply.”
- Association
of Public Health Laboratories - Environmental Health Program
- Association of Occupational and
Environmental Clinics, A network of over 60 clinics and associated individuals focused
on improving the practice of occupational and environmental medicine.
- Association
of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
- Association
of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health
Education (ASTDHPPHE)
- Association
of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- ASTHO
- StatePublicHealth.org
- Chemical
Transportation Emergency Center
- Coalition
for Healthier Cities and Communities
- Council
of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS)
- Council
of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
- Environmental Law Institute, An association for
environmental lawyers and related professionals.
- Farm
Safety 4 Just Kids
- Food
and Drug Law Institute (FDLI)
- Ground
Water Protection Council, A national association of state ground water
and underground injection control agencies
- International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology, An association focused on fostering the study of health effects of
environmental exposures from an epidemiological perspective.
- International Society of Exposure Analysis, An
association for the advancement of exposure analysis for human populations and ecosystems.
- International
Society for Infectious Diseases and Promed
Mail
- International
Society on Urban Health
- Interstate
Technology Regulatory Council
- Institute
of Medicine's Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- National
Assembly on School-Based Health Care
- National
Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
- National
Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)
- National
Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH)
- National
Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS)
- National
Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP)
- National
Environmental Health Association, An association for "the
environmental health and protection professional for the purpose of
providing a healthful environment for all."
- National Environmental Education
& Training Foundation, An organization devoted to environmental learning
- National
Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
- National
Safety Council
- National
Safety Council's Environmental Health Center
- National
School Boards Association: School Health Programs
- Risk Assessment and Policy Association, An
association for risk assessment professionals interested in policy applications.
- Society
for Occupational and Environmental Health
- Society of Toxicology, An association dedicated to
the advancement of toxicology with a goal that its value "as a scientific discipline
will be widely understood, accepted and utilized in enhancing human, animal, and
environmental health."
- State
and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA)
- Water Environment Federation, an association focused on
wastewater treatment.
- Water Quality Association
New Jersey and New York Sites:
State Environmental Sites:
State Public Health Sites:
U.S.
Government and State Sites:
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR, federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- ATSDR's
Air and Dust Sampling in Lower Manhattan - Final Report
- ATSDR's
Case
Studies in Environmental Medicine: Course SS3046 - Taking an Exposure History. March
2000.
- ATSDR's
Case Studies in Environmental
Medicine: Links to Radon and Benzene Cases
- ATSDR's
ToxFAQs - Frequently Asked Questions About Contaminants
Found at Hazardous Waste Sites
- ATSDR's
Hazardous Waste Sites and Children's Health Risks
- ATSDR's
Public Health Assessment Process and the Community
- ATSDR's
Nationwide Environmental Health Nursing Initiative
- ATSDR's
Minimal Risk Levels for Hazardous Substances, nearly 300 chemical
exposure levels are listed
- California Office of Environmental
Health Hazard Assessment, a state agency that offers a kids guide to risk assessment.
- California
OEHHA, Proposition 65
- California
Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service
- ChemIDplus
System at the National Library of Medicine
- Children's
Environmental Health & Safety Inventory of Research
- Children's
Environmental Health Network
- Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), federal
agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for promoting
health through disease and prevention and control.
- CDC: Adolescent and School Health
- CDC: West Nile Virus Homepage
- CDC: National Center for Health Statistics: Public Health Data Standards
Consortium
- Combined
Health Information Database (CHID) Online
- Congressional Research Service Reports on
Risk and Reform, a branch of the Library of Congress
- Consumer
Product Safety Commission
- Directory
of Health Organizations Online (DIRLINE)
- Environmental Health
Policy Committee, a coordinating committee within the U.S. Public Health Service
- Farm*A*Syst,
cooperative program between U.S. Housing and Urban Development and U.S.
Department of Agriculture for healthy farms
- Food and Drug Administration, federal agency within
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that regulates food additives, drugs,
cosmetics, and medical devices
- Food Safety Information Gateway
- HAZ-MAP:
Information on Hazardous Chemicals & Occupational Diseases
- HazardMaps.gov,
a multi-hazard mapping initiative sponsored by FEMA and NOAA
- Home*A*Syst,
cooperative program between U.S. Housing and Urban Development and U.S.
Department of Agriculture for healthy homes
- Local
Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN)
- MEDLINEplus:
Toxicology & Environmental Health Topics
- Mine
Safety and Health Administration
- Minnesota
Farm Safety & Health Information Clearinghouse
- NARA, National Archives and Records Administration
(publishes the U.S. Federal Register)
- National
Cancer Institute
- National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- National Center for
Environmental Health
- National Center for Health
Statistics
- NCHS
Health United States, 2002
- National
Children's Study
- National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Institutes of Health
- NIH
- Household Products Database, health and safety information on
household products
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
federal agency within the National Institutes of Health focused on environmental health
- National Institute of Occupational Safety
and Health, federal agency within the National Institutes of Health focused on
occupational health
- NIOSH,
Evaluation
of Physical and Mental Health Symptoms Following the World Trade Center
(WTC) Disaster: Borough of Manhattan Community College and York College,
August 2002.
- NIOSH,
Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health Concentrations
- NIOSH
Report To Congress On Workers'' Home Contamination Study Conducted Under The
Workers'' Family Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 671A)
- NIOSH
Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, over 130,000 chemicals
in this database
- National
Institute for Nursing Research
- National
Library of Medicine General Links, Locator
Plus and Gateway
- National Library of Medicine TOXNET, federal agency
portal to toxicology data and chemical information. TOXNET
Databases include: Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS), Genetic Toxicity Databank (GENE-TOX),
Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS), Toxicology
Information Online (TOXLINE), Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology
Information Center (DART/ETIC), Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), Chemical
Identification (ChemID)
- NLM
Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project
- NLM
Tox Town
- National Response Center, central federal location for
reporting and information related to emergency responses to hazardous substance releases.
- National
Technical Information Service
- National
Toxicology Program, federal agency that coordinates toxicological
testing within U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- PubMed
- Office
of Management and Budget - Whitehouse, daily regulatory review
activities of OMB
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- OSHA's
Technical Links to Safety and Health Topics
- ORNL
Risk Assessment Information System, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's site
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental
Management.
- Toxicology
Tutor sponsored by National Library of Medicine
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- U.S.
Department of Energy
- U.S.
DOE Argonne National Laboratory
- U.S.
DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, online environmental safety
and health manual
- U.S.
DOE Environmental Safety and Health Information Portal
- U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S.
DHHS Healtfinder.gov
- U.S.
DHHS Healthy People 2010 Home Page
- U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- U.S.
Department of Transportation
- U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Health Initiative, 10
independent study modules on veteran health issues
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), federal
agency responsible for protecting human health and and the environment.
- U.S.
EPA's Air Pollution Distance Learning Network
- U.S.
EPA's Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors, AP-42, Fifth Edition
- U.S. EPA's Beach Watch
- U.S. EPA's Exposure Factors Handbook
- U.S.
EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools
- U.S. EPA's IRIS Chemical Toxicity
Database
- U.S. EPA's Envirofacts Database
for chemical properties
- U.S.
EPA's EnviroMapper Storefront or Direct
to EnviroMapper
- U.S.
EPA's Local Emergency Planning Database
- U.S.
EPA's National Environmental Methods Index
- U.S. EPA's Office of Children's
Health Protection offers many links to risk and exposure assessment tools focused on
children.
- U.S.
EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
- U.S. EPA's
Superfund Tools for Human Health Risk Assessment Site
- U.S.
EPA's Toxic Release Inventory and Easy
Access to TRI data
- U.S.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- U.S. Geological Survey, federal agency within the U.S.
Department of Interior that gathers and disseminates environmental quality data.
- U.S.G.S.
Environment and Human Health
- U.S.G.S.
& U.S. EPA - National Environmental Methods Index, water quality
analytical methods
- U.S.G.S.
National Map
International
Governmental Sites:
- Ecolex
- A Gateway to Environmental Law
- Health Canada,
Investigation Human Exposure to Contaminants in the Environment: A Handbook for Exposure
Calculations, 1995. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
- Health Canada, Office of
Biosafety
- Human and Environmental
Risk Assessment on ingredients
of household cleaning products, "European partnership established in 1999 between
the makers of household cleaning products (AISE) and the chemical industry (CEFIC) who
supplies the raw materials" to conduct human health and environmental risk
assessments.
- International Agency for Research on Cancer, International
agency focused on cancer research.
- International
Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)
- International Food Safety Congress 2000
- International
Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
- International
Labor Organization
- ILO
International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre, Links
to publications, databases, and services
- International Programme on Chemical Safety
(IPCS), This
site has links to Environmental Health Criteria Monographs, CIS Chemical Information,
Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents, Health and Safety Guides, IARC
Summaries & Evaluations, IPCS/CEC Evaluation of Antidotes, JECFA (food additives)
Monographs & Evaluations, JMPR (pesticide residues) Monographs & Evaluations,
Pesticide Data Sheets, Poisons Information Monographs, Screening Information Data Set
(SIDs) for High Production Volume Chemicals.
- International Toxicity Estimates for Risk, a free "Internet database of human health risk values for
over 500 chemicals of environmental concern from several organizations
worldwide."
- The World Health Organization (WHO)
- United
Nations Development Program
- United Nations Environment Program
Academic Sites
- Center
for Applied Environmental Public Health at Tulane University School of
Public Health
- Center
for Child Environmental Health Risks Research at University of Washington
- Center
for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment at The Johns Hopkins
University
- Center
for Childhood Neurotoxicology and Exposure Assessment at Rutgers
University/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School
- Center
for Children's Environmental Health at Columbia University
- Center
for Children's Environmental Health at University of California, Davis
- Center
for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine
- Center
for Children's Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Center
for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) at University of
Iowa
- Center
for Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas at University of
California, Berkeley
- Center
for Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth
- Center for Law and Public Health at Johns
Hopkins University
- Center
for Public Health Law at LSU School
of Law
- Centre
for Occupational and Environmental Health at University of Manchester,
and excellent portal to more sites
- Children's
Environmental Health Center at University of Southern California, Los
Angeles
- Community-Based
Public Health at University of Michigan School of Public Health (CBPH)
- Cornell
University, Material Safety Data Sheets
- Duke
University, Occupational and Environmental Medicine WWW Resource Index
- Environmental
Occupational Health Sciences Institute
- Harvard
School of Public Health
- Kresge
Center for Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health
- London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Michigan
Center for the Environment and Children's Health at University of Michigan
- Rocky
Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health University of Utah
- Southwest
Center for Pediatric Environmental Health at the University of Texas Health
Center at Tyler
- Queensland University of
Technology - School of Public Health, a variety of public health related links.
- University of
Illinois at Chicago - School of Public Health, Envirorisk - "a case
based, problem-solving program in environmental risk assessment and risk
communication."
- UC
Berkeley Environmental Health Sciences Center
- UCLA
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
- University
of Iowa, Agricultural Occupational Health
- University
of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination
- University
of Iowa Hardin Meta Directory
- University
of Vermont, Material Safety Data Sheets and other safety and
environmental resources
Non-governmental
Sites:
- American Lung Association - offers information about
air quality and health
- American
Lung Association's Health House
- AOHC
Internet Learning Center - site cosponsored by AAOHN and ACOEM
- Arnot
Ogden Medical Center - Recognizing
Waterborne Disease And The Health Effects of Water Pollution
- ASTM International - offers standards related to
risk-based corrective action.
- BTOX
Analytical Laboratories - good source of exposure assessment information
- Canadian
Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
- Center
for Health, Environment & Justice
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- Center
for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology
- Center
for Risk Communication
- Center
for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections
- COEH
Diploma in Occupational Medicine: Internet
Resources
- Charity
Navigator - evaluates charities based on IRS filings
- ChemAlliance - Regulatory
Information for the Chemical Process Industries, regulatory tools and resources
- Chemfinder.com
- Chemical
Injury Information Network
- Children's
Environmental Health Institute
- Children's
Environmental Health Network
- Children's
Health Environmental Coalition
- Cincinnati
Children's Environmental Health Center at Children's Hospital Medical Center
- EnviroDx
- EnviroTools, developed by the Hazardous
Substances Research Center, Michigan State University
- Environmental
Defense Fund's Scorecard
- Environmental
Health and Safety Freeware
- Environmental
Health Watch, a public
interest organization in Cleveland, Ohio that "provides information,
assistance and advocacy to protect and sustain human health and the health
of the environment."
- Environmental
Monitoring and Measurement Advisor, expert system (interactive software)
for environmental analyses
- Environmental
Working Group
- ESRI:
GIS & Mapping on the Web
- Finnish
Institute of Occupational Health, links to African and Asian Pacific
publications
- Food Safety Council
- Food Safety Network
- Groundwater
Central - a portal to groundwater technology information
- Health
Care Without Harm
- Healthy
Building Network
- Healthy
Indoor Air for America's Homes
- Healthy
Schools Network, Inc.
- Here
is New York - a democracy of photographs
- Home
Safety Council
- Hospitals
for a Healthy Environment
- Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory
Chemical Safety Summaries, Safety
Videos
- Injured
Workers Pharmacy
- Kaiser
Family Foundation - State Health Facts Online
- Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - information on herbs, botanicals, and complementary
treatments
- MSDS
Search
- National
Association of Local Boards of Health
- National
Association of Occupational Health Professionals
- National
Environmental Training Center for Small Communities
- National
Public Radio - Series on Doing Americas Dirty Work
- New
Jersey Environmental Digital Library
- New
Jersey Future
- New
York Safety Resource Center
- New
York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
- NYCOSH
9/11 World Trade Center area cleanup articles and documents
- Occupational
and Environmental Resources
- PEW
Charitable Trusts - Environmental Health
- Partnership for Food Safety
Education (FightBac.org)
- Physicians
for Social Responsibility
- Pollution
Prevention Resource Exchange
- Public
Health Foundation
- PHF
- Healthy People 2010 & Environmental Health
- PHF
- Regional Healthy People
2010 Events and Priorities
- The
Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, The State of the
Nation's Ecosystems
- The Health Effects
Institute, "a partnership
between U.S. EPA and industry."
- Water
Health Connection - focused on recognizing waterborne disease and the
health effects of water pollution
- Workers
Compensation Insurance
Journals:
- American
Journal of Public Health - The official journal of the American
Public Health Association
- Applied Occupational and
Environmental Hygiene - The official journal
of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
- Archives of Environmental Health - An
international journal consolidating the latest research " from such varying fields as
epidemiology, toxicology, biostatistics, and biochemistry."
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Journal published by the Centers for Disease Control.
- Environmental
Health Journal - Journal of the Chartered Institute of Environmental
Health.
- Environmental Health Perspectives - Journal of the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
- Environmental
Health Perspectives Children's
Health Page
- Environmental Science and
Technology - An American
Chemical Society journal "for scientific and technical professionals in a wide range
of environmental disciplines."
- Environmental Research - A journal that is
focused on "toxic effects of environmental agents on humans and animals."
- Human and
Ecological Risk Assessment - An international journal focused on human and
ecological risk assessment developments.
- International
Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - An international
journal focused on occupational or ambient environmental problems with an
emphasis on clinical and epidemiological studies, human experimental studies
on environmental health effects, and methods.
- Journal of the American
Industrial Hygiene Association - The official journal
of the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
- Journal
of Biology - an open access international journal publishing
biological research
- Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and
Management - An "international
journal covering policy and decision-making relating to environmental assessment in the
broadest sense."
- Journal
of Environmental Health - The official journal of the National Environmental
Health Association.
- Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine - A clinically oriented
journal of "research articles and technical reports ... on new medical developments
in the prevention, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of work-related injury and illness."
- Journal of Toxicology and
Environmental Health - Focused on
"environmental toxicology in general as well as in special interest fields such as
target organ toxicities, immunotoxicology, risk assessment, carcinogenesis, mutagenesis,
ecotoxicology, environmental factors affecting health, and aquatic toxicology."
- Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report - CDC's weekly publication of reports
from state health departments and federal health related activities.
- Risk: Health, Safety & Environment - The official
journal of the Risk Assessment & Policy Association.
- Science of the Total Environment
- An "International journal for scientific research into the environment and its
relationship with man."
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