Essential Health Links: Environmental Health

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CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source
Environmental Health and Toxicology
Environmental Health Action (EHA)
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)
Global Environmental Facility
Healthy Environments for Children's Alliance
International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH)
PAHO Environmental Health Topics
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Environmental Health
Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH)
ToxSeek: Meta-Search and Clustering Engine for Environmental Health and Toxicology
U.S. Agency for International Development - Environmental Health Program
WHO Children's Environmental Health
WHO - Environmental Health

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CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
 The Collaborative on Health and the Environment has compiled a unique database that specifically links chemical contaminants with approximately 180 human diseases or conditions. The database can be searched based on the specific disease, organ system, and or chemical name. Results are displayed based on their strength of evidence (strong, good, or limited). The database is most useful for identifying what exposures may contribute to disease. http://database.healthandenvironment.org/

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source
 Environmental Health is a peer-reviewed, online, and open-access journal dedicated to serving researchers and health professionals involved in environmental and occupational medicine. http://www.ehjournal.net/

Environmental Health and Toxicology
 The Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of the U.S. National Library of Medicine has organized a comprehensive directory of toxicology and environmental health databases, bibliographies, tutorials and other scientific and consumer-oriented resources. Topics cover specific chemicals, occupational hazards, poisoning, environmentally-related diseases, and toxicology. http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html

Environmental Health Action (EHA)
 Sponsored by the Physicians for Social Responsibility, EHA is an online community designed to educate health professionals and others interested in environmental health issues. Although targeted mainly towards a U.S. audience, it has some international content and useful research updates on air pollution, urban living, children's health, vulnerable populations, etc. http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Enviro_Home

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, EHP is an open-access journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. The journal occasionally publishes special issues on children's health, environmental medicine, and toxicogenomics. A pilot project EHP Science Education offers lesson plans and resources for science classes based on EHP articles. Select EHP articles are available in French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Russian, plus a special Chinese edition is available. The journal also distributes its monthly print publication for free to developing countries. http://www.ehponline.org/

Global Environmental Facility    (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
The Global Environmental Facility aids developing countries in developing and funding programs related to climate change, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. Search the Project Database to see what projects are being funded worldwide. http://www.gefweb.org/

Healthy Environments for Children's Alliance     (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Chinese, Russian, Spanish)
A WHO initiative, the Healthy Environments for Children's Alliance aims to raise awareness and influence decision makers on effective measures for promoting healthy living areas for children. The site offers a wealth of background documents, advocacy materials, approaches to alliance building, and descriptions of community alliance projects. The Framework publication also is available in Russian, Chinese and Spanish. The HECANET mailing list provides updates on HECA activities, meeting announcements, and advocacy tools and reports. http://www.who.int/heca/en/

International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH)  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The International Federation of Environmental Health members encompass the national associations who represent the interests of environmental health professionals. The site is a resource for scientific reports, IFEH publications and policy papers, and links to member websites. In addition, IFEH offers a discussion panel, listserv, and job exchange. They also sponsor the World Congress on Environmental Health conference. http://www.ifeh.org/

PAHO Environmental Health Topics    (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
The Pan American Health Organization has compiled an environmental health topics list addressing air pollution, chemical safety, disaster assistance, drinking water, healthy housing, and water quality. Each topic provides links to announcements, books, manuals, multimedia, technical documents,and publications. Some of these resources are available in French and/or Spanish. http://www.paho.org/selection.asp?SEL=TP&LNG=ENG&CD=CENVHELTH

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Environmental Health (2100+)
 This PubMed search will identify all environmental health related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22environmental%20health%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20Environmental%20Health%5BText%20Word%5D%29

Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH)
 TEACH is a searchable database of summarized, peer-reviewed research articles covering environmental contaminants that potentially impact childrens' health. The database currently contains over 1,500 summaries and is updated annually. http://www.epa.gov/teach/index.html

ToxSeek: Meta-Search and Clustering Engine for Environmental Health and Toxicology
This site contains a National Library of Medicine, U.S, metasearch engine and clustering tool that enables the simultaneous searching of many different toxicology and environmental health information databases and web sites. Using the NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for subject clusters, the search engine accesses Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and other related sites. http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/toxseek/ui8/searchfr.jsp?selectedcategory=Allcat

U.S. Agency for International Development - Environmental Health Program (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
USAID is an independent federal agency that works with U.S. and international partners to support economic growth, agriculture, global health, and humanitarian assistance to countries in need. Its Environmental Health Program aims to foster new and improved interventions and approaches to prevent or ameliorate environmentally-related illnesses. The site contains fulltext technical work and publications predominantly covering hygiene and sanitation, water quality, urban health, and vector-borne diseases. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/eh/

WHO Children's Environmental Health  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The WHO Children's Environmental Health website provides access to reports and research on how to determine child environmental health indicators, evaluate risk factors, engage in capacity building, and assess children health profiles at a national level. The site includes two useful statistical databases: WHO Global Database on Child Health and Malnutrition and the Data Review on Children's Environmental Health. http://www.who.int/ceh/en/

WHO - Environmental Health  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Environmental Health website is an extensive portal to WHO's research, reports, and activities. The Health and Environment Linkages Initiative attempts to encourage developing countries to acknowledge the link between environment and health as integral to economic development. That site highlights priority risk areas, outlines current pilot projects, and provides tools for conducting economic and impact assessments. The WHO's World Health Report provides a comprehensive look at the state of global health. The Report often contains sections on the contribution of environmental factors to the global health burden. The Global Estimates of Burden of Disease Caused by Environment and Occupation Risks analyzes twenty-eight risk factors by gender and age groups. http://www.who.int/topics/environmental_health/en/

The Environmental Health page of Essential Health Links is advised by Stephanie Holmgren, Library, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA

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 Updated: 18 January 2008