Lukol Directory: Science: Environment: Environmental Health: Organizations: Children's

Institute for Children's Environmental Health
The primary mission of ICEH is to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health and well-being of children and to detoxify environments wherever children spend time.
http://www.iceh.org/

Children's Environmental Health
Project of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Provides a summary of the medical and scientific information about environmental effects on health.
http://www.cape.ca/children.html

ATSDR - Office of Children's Health
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry with specialized information on the toxicology of children. Provides ongoing examination of relevant child health issues like cancer and hazardous waste sites.
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/child/

Children's Environmental Health Information Resources for Public Health Professionals
National Network of Libraries of Medicine project to provide public health professionals with access to information resources.
http://phpartners.org/cehir/

The Children's Environmental Health Institute
Committed to decreasing the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of environmentally related childhood diseases. CEHI identify, develop, and promote solutions to improve children's environmental health through scientific research, environmental education, and public policy.
http://www.cehi.org/

Healthy Schools
Work to help Ontario school boards identify, prevent, and remediate indoor environment problems that could otherwise affect children's health and learning adversely. Provides news, searches, indexes and links.
http://www.healthyschools.com/

Healthy Schools Network
U.S. based advocate for the protection of children's environmental health in schools. News, guides, reports and resources.
http://www.healthyschools.org/

Mothers for Clean Air
Non-profit organization concerned with air pollution in the Houston-Galveston Texas area and its effects on children's health. Provides newsletter, events and air quality information.
http://www.mothersforcleanair.org

Our Children's Earth Foundation
Work to protect the public, especially children, from the health impacts of pollution in California. Information on campaigns, events and news.
http://www.ocefoundation.org/

Children's Health and the Environment
Pan American Health Organization Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS) resources and information.
http://www.cepis.ops-oms.org/bvsana/i/home...

U.S. EPA - Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP)
Environmental Protection Agency site on children's environment and health. Publications, references and resources.
http://www.epa.gov/children/

Children's Environmental Health
Minnesota Department of Health information to protect the health of children as it relates to environmental hazards.
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/chil...

Center for Children's Health and the Environment
CCHE is the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness. Provides fact sheets, reports, conference and contact information.
http://www.childenvironment.org/

Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
National partnership committed to working collaboratively for a more sustainable and effective children's environmental health movement.
http://www.partnersforchildren.org

Children's Health Environmental Coalition
CHEC dedicated to prevention of non-genetic childhood cancer and other environmentally caused childhood illnesses.
http://www.checnet.org/

Preventing Harm
New physician-authored research links chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home to developmental disabilities, including behavioral and learning disabilities.
http://www.preventingharm.org/

Enviro Health Action
Physicians for Social Responsibility brochures and resources focusing on toxic threats to child development.
http://www.envirohealthaction.org/children...

University of California Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
PEHSU is one of several regional federally funded clinical and educational centers. Provides information on programs and services for expert clinical and public health evaluations of children and communities with suspected environmental health problems.
http://www.ucsf.edu/ucpehsu/

Children's Environmental Health Network
The CEHN is a national multidisciplinary project whose purpose is to protect the health of children as it relates to environmental hazards.
http://www.cehn.org/


Related Topics:
Health: Child Health
Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco: Effects: By Source of Exposure: Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Children



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