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Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations [1]. Environmental health as used by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, includes both ...
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Resources
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- America's Children and the Environment (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Asthma and its Environmental Triggers: Scientists Take a Practical New Look at a Familiar Illness (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- ATSDR Glossary of Terms (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
- Backyard Burning: Human Health (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Beach Pollution (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Before You Go to the Beach... (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File
- Breast Cancer: Susceptibility and the Environment (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Cadmium Studies Suggest New Pathway to Human Cancer (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Chemicals and Human Disease (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Children’s Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Choosing Where You Live: A Consumer Self Help Guide to the U.S. and U.S. Territories (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Dams (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Depleted Uranium (DU) (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- Dioxin Research (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- El Programa Nacional de Toxicología (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Enfermedades provocadas por el ambiente de A a Z (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Envirofacts Data Warehouse (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Environmental Diseases from A to Z (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Environmental Disparities (American Public Health Association) - Links to PDF File
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Environmental Health (Medline Plus)
- Environmental Health (National Institutes of Health)
- Environmental Health Science Education (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Children's Health Protection
- Environmental Virtual Campus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- EPA Student Center (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Explorers' Club (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Exposure (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) - Links to PDF File
- Exposure Pathways (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- Exposure Pathways of Hazardous Substances (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Family Guide -- 20 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- FASTATS: Environmental Health (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Find Your Beach: Beach Advisories and Closings (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- First Human Study to Show Benefits to Newborns from Federal Ban on Home Use of Two Insecticides (National Institutes of Health)
- Forests (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Frequently Asked Questions About Drycleaning (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Waste (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Global Warming Kids Site (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Global Warming: Impacts -- Health (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Glossary of Children's Environmental Health Terms (Children's Environmental Health Network)
- Hair Sample Testing: What Can Hair Sampling Results Tell Me About Environmental Exposures? (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
- HealtheHouse (Children's Health Environmental Coalition)
- Healthy Environments for Children (Pan American Health Organization) - Links to PDF File - Large file
- Help Yourself to a Healthy Home (Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) - Links to PDF File
- 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
- High School Environmental Center (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Household Hazardous Waste (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Household Products Database (National Library Medicine)
- How Do You Study Environmental Health? (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Hydrogen Peroxide (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- It's Your Scene, Teen -- 21 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Kids 'n' the Environmental Health Sciences (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Landfill (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Learn about Chemicals Around Your House (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs)
- Low Birthweight, Early Births Found Among Infants Near Hazardous Landfill (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Man-Made Mineral Fibers - Carcinogens (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Medical Assistance on Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- National Center for Environmental Health
- National Center for Environmental Health Kids' Page (National Center for Environmental Health)
- National Children's Study (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Clearinghouse, NICHD, NIH, HHS)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Kids' Pages (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (National Center for Environmental Health)
- National Toxicology Program
- Native Americans - Environmental Policy (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- New Environmental Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- NIEHS and UNC to Collaborate on Registry of 20,000 Subjects to Relate Gene Variants and Environmental Disease (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- NIEHS, CDC Fund Study of Fungus Fatal to Cleveland Infants (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
- Oceans of Discovery, How the Study of Oceans (and Sharks) Improves Human Health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Questions and Answers about Dioxins (Food and Drug Administration)
- Reaching Out to Help Our Communities (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Read the Label First! Protect Your Garden (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File
- Read the Label First! Protect Your Household (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File
- Read the Label First! Protect Your Kids (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File
- Read the Label First! Protect Your Pet (Environmental Protection Agency) - Links to PDF File
- Respect for Life: Why Animal Research? (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Scientists Identify Genes That Regulate Allergic Response to Diesel Fumes (National Institutes of Health)
- Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (National Center for Environmental Health)
- Terms of Environment (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Top 20 Hazardous Chemicals (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Tox Town (National Library of Medicine) - Requires Flash Player (National Library Medicine)
- Tox Town: Exploring Toxic Chemicals and Environmental Health (Office of the Director)
- ToxFAQs (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) - Frequently Asked Questions about Contaminants Found at Hazardous Waste Sites
- TOXMAP (National Library Medicine)
- TOXNET Databases (National Library of Medicine) - journal citations and data files on toxicology and related subjects (National Library Medicine)
- Wastes from Health-Care Activities (World Health Organization)
- Welcome to the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) (National Library Medicine)
- What Are Endocrine Disruptors? (Environmental Protection Agency)
- What are PCBs? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- What Is Benzene? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- What Is Dioxin? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- What Is Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- What Is Perchloroethylene (Perc)? (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
- What Is the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program? (Environmental Protection Agency)
- What's Up With Our Nation's Waters? (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water) - Links to PDF File
- Women's Health and the Environment (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

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