Environmental Medicine Topics

Introduction

ATSDR offers environmental health and medicine education products for health professionals, community members, and interested members of the public. These materials are designed to increase awareness and knowledge of how the environment interacts with human health and includes tools to promote the positive health aspects and prevent and/or minimize the known adverse health impacts of these interactions. These materials are developed to meet specific audience needs, are free of charge, and are based on the latest evidence based science and medicine.

 

 

Patient Education and Care Instruction Sheets

For more information and access to the Patient Education and Care Instruction Sheets, please visit http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/emes/
emes/health_professionals/instruction_sheets.html.

 

Community Environmental Health Presentations

For providers interested in delivering educational presentations to communities, ATSDR provides Community Environmental Health Presentations that are designed to increase environmental health literacy and address the positive and/or negative impact that the environment has on human health. Please visit http://www.atsdr.
cdc.gov/emes/products_for_public/health_presentations.html. At this address, you will find Community Environmental Health Instructional Presentation Kits and Community Environmental Health Web Stream Presentations

 

Additional Educational Products for Health Professionals

ATSDR offers additional course resources accessible via Web stream. These courses include:

Surviving Field Stress for First Responders
Developed in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency.
Available at: http://www2a.cdc.gov/phtn/webcast/stress-05/

Emergency Risk Communication
Developed in collaboration with the Pan American Health Association. This course is obtainable in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Available at: http://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/CERConline/index.html.

 

ATSDR Resources

For additional information on other ATSDR resources on hazardous substances and their potential health effects, including Toxicological Profiles, ToxFAQs™, and information on specific substances, please visit ATSDR’s Toxic Substance page at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/2p-toxic-substances.html.

For additional information on substance specific resources, please visit ATSDR’s A-Z Index page at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/contents.html.