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Children's Health
A presentation of "Children's Learning Problems - Could they be caused by Pollution?" A description of common environmental health hazards impacting children describing resulting disabilities.
http://texasbucketbrigade.org
Healthy Spaces
A site designed for parents and caregivers of young children. Learn how to protect kids from environmental contaminants in places where they grow, learn and play.
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/healthy-spaces/
Children's Health and the Environment in the Faroes
This site provides information about prospective studies of birth cohorts from the Faroe Islands, where exposures to seafood contaminants, such as methylmercury and PCBs, are increased.
http://www.chef-project.dk/
Children's Environmental Health in Kentucky
Protecting the health of our children will require that we work to better understand the relationship between environmental conditions and health outcomes. The Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission’s Children’s Environmental Health In Kentucky report is intended to provide a snapshot of children’s health and potential relationships to the environment in order to promote a greater state dialogue on environmental health in Kentucky.
http://www.eqc.ky.gov/pubs/soke/soke04/Childrens+Enviromenta...
Introduction to Children's Environmental Health from greenfeet.com
This piece provides a brief overview of why children's environmental health is a growing cause for concern. Although by no means a comprehensive review of this complex subject, this piece includes a discussion of why children are more vulnerable than adults to environmental exposures, what types of exposures affect children, and which children are at particular risk.
http://www.greenfeet.net/newsletter/childenvirohealth.shtml
United Nations Environment Programme, New York Office
UNEP’s New York Office has been involved in various initiatives on children's environmental health, working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as well as governmental partners, non-governmental organizations and networks, and academic organizations. In 2002, UNEP, UNICEF and WHO published ‘Children in the New Millennium: Environmental Impact on Health’, which aims to inject new urgency in our efforts to address the interlinkages between environmental factors and the survival, protection and development of children. UNEP is a core member of the WHO-led Healthy Environments for Children Alliance (HECA).
http://www.nyo.unep.org/ceht.htm
The Lower Price Hill Environmental Leadership Group- Children's Health Survey
The Lower Price Hill Environmental Leadership Group works to improve environmental health in the Lower Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Children's Health Survey was conducted because of concerns LPH residents expressed about their children's health.
http://www.uacvoice.org/elg-survey-98.html
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/
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
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/
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/
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/
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/
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