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Healthy Environments
(http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/jackson/index.html)
Radio interview of Richard Joseph Jackson, MD, MPH, on the Paula
Gordon Show (June 6, 2003)
Listen to an interview with Richard Joseph Jackson, MD, MPH, former
director of CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, about why
healthy people require a healthy environment, on WGUN-AM 1010 in
Atlanta.
Limited-Resource Households Suffer Disproportionately From Indoor Air
Pollutants
J. Laquatra, L.E. Maxwell, M. Pierce
This paper reports on a study of indoor air quality in homes in
nonmetropolitan counties in New York State.
National Recreation and Park Association and U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services Working for the Nation’s Wellness
(http://www.healthypeople.gov/implementation/nrpa/)
This article describes a partnership from the Healthy People 2010
health objectives between the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and NRPA to promote community-based health education and
activity programs aimed at increasing physical activity and reducing
obesity.
On Closer Inspection: Learning to Look at the Whole Home Environment
(http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/113-5/innovations-abs.html)
Angela Spivey
Although all housing hazards are not created equal, it can be
beneficial for long-term environmental health if they are addressed
simultaneously. Recognizing that many of the health hazards found in
homes are often intertwined, the housing health industry is responding
by cultivating more resopnsive, versatile professionals to seek out
and solve multiple problems rather the tackling one problem at at
time. This May 2005 article in Environmental Health Perspectives
discusses the development of this new holistic method of spotting and
addressing housing hazards.
Reducing Nationwide Obesity Starts in Neighborhoods
(http:/www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2003/nhlbi-03a.htm)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
National Institutes of Health (July 3, 2003)
This report summarizes the effectiveness of the Hearts N’ Parks
program, an intervention developed by the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA),
to reduce the growing trend of obesity and the risk of coronary heart
disease in the United States. Links to the Hearts N’ Parks homepage
and the full performance report are included.
Safer Housing: A Key Step to Overcoming Health Disparities
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Walter Tsou
This editorial published in The Nation’s Health, the journal of the
American Public Health Association, discusses the CDC/HUD Healthy
Homes Initiative.
The
Relationship Between Housing and Health: Children at Risk
(http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/7157/7157.html)
Patrick Breysse, Nick Farr, Warren Galke, Bruce Lanphear, Rebecca
Morley, Linda Bergofsky
In November 2002, the Naitonal Center for Healthy Housing convened a
2-day workshop focused on the effect of housing on children’s health
and the translation of research findings into practical construction,
rehabilitation, and maintenance. This article provides an overview
suggesting that lack of consensus on standard measurements, incomplete
understanding about the interaction of home hazards, inadequate
research on the effectiveness of interventions, and insufficient
political support limit current efforts to achieve health housing.
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