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Related Links
The links below will take you to resources for general information on children's environmental health.
EPA Sites
- EPA’s
Office of Children’s Health Protection
Visit this site for comprehensive news, information, and links related to environmental risks to children’s health, and tips to protect children.
- To search for information related to a specific environmental hazard,
visit
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/frmChemicals
- To search for information related to a specific health topic, visit
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/frmIllnesses
- Children’s Health Information by EPA Region:
- Region
1 – Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut
- Region
2 – New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
- Region
3 – Pennsylvania, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia
- Region
4 – Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida
- Region
5 – Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio
- Region
6 – New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana
- Region
7 – Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri
- Region
8 –- Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah,
Colorado
- Region
9 – California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii
- Region 10 – Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska
- Healthy School Environments
This EPA site provides a number of links to resources for information on how to address environmental health issues in schools.
- For links to other topics related to children’s health from the EPA server, visit http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/humachildrenshealth.html
Other Agencies and Organizations
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
The Forum publishes an annual indicators report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, that includes some of the same or similar environmental measures as those developed for America’s Children and the Environment.
Children’s Health and the Environment in North America
This report, published by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, is the first integrated, regional report providing indicators for a series of children’s health and environment issues. It includes several of the same or similar measures as America’s Children and the Environment.
California
Children’s Health
This site from California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment provides children’s health related information in California,
and a toxics
directory of links for additional resources.
Children’s Environmental Health
Network
This site provides information on children’s environmental health
and links to sources of additional information and resources.
Center for Children’s
Health and the Environment
This site from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Department
of Community and Preventive Medicine provides academic research, policy
information, and other resource links related to toxic pollutant exposure
and childhood illnesses.
Children’s Health Environmental
Coalition
This site includes information on how to protect your children from
toxins affecting their health.
Environmental Health
Perspectives
The children's health Web site of Environmental Health Perspectives,
a publication of the National Institutes of Health, provides centralized
access to all of the journal's children’s health resources, including
news articles and scientific research dating back to the 1970s.
Institute for Children’s Environmental
Health
This site provides information on children’s health programs and
initiatives underway through the Institute for Children’s Environmental
Health.