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Environmental Information
Premier's Safety Institute provides safety resources and tools to promote a safe healthcare delivery environment for patients, workers, and their communities. Phone: 704.733.5865
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of hospitals and health care systems, medical professionals, community groups, health-affected constituencies, labor unions, environmental and environmental health organizations and religious groups.
Delaware Nurses Association is a member of the Health Care Without Harm.
Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health is a new web-based effort to capture the illuminating stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by improving the health of the environment. The shining stories on this website show how nurses are creatively and strategically addressing environmental problems and illuminating the way towards safe hospitals, communities with clean air, land and water and children born without toxic chemicals in their bodies.
Michelle Lauer, DNA member taking action for the environment
http://www.theluminaryproject.org/story.php?detail=60
Environmental Health Resources
Brochure for download—Nurses: A Trusted Voice for Environmental Health
American Nurses Association: Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Agency for Toxic Substance Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- For fact sheets and information on pesticides and other chemicals >>visit
- Information Center toll-free at 1-888-422-8737 or e-mail ATSDRIC@cdc.gov
- Emergency Response Hotline: 404-639-4270
Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics—good references and resources on the web on occupational and environmental health
Center for Health, Environment and Justice—After winning the federal relocation of residents victimized by toxic waste at Love Canal, Lois Gibbs and other local activists were inundated with calls from people around the country who were facing similar threats and wanted help. CHEJ was founded in 1981 to address this need.
Children’s Environmental Health Network—Has a great resource guide on-line
Clean Water Fund—national 501(c)3 nonprofit, brings diverse communities together to work for changes that improve our lives, promoting sensible solutions for people and the environment.
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)—a network of organizations and individuals concerned about environmental contaminants and their linkages to disease. Here you will find much useful information, as well as options for getting involved with others who share your concerns and goals. They welcome your interest and participation. Join CHE
Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases by Jay A. Brown, M.D., M.P.H.—an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. It is one of the products and services made available by the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program
Health Care Without Harm—an international coalition of hospitals and health care systems, medical professionals, community groups, health-affected constituencies, labor unions, environmental and environmental health organizations and religious groups. The mission is to transform the health care industry worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment.
Hospitals for A Healthy Environment—The primary goal of the H2E effort is to educate health care professionals about pollution prevention opportunities in hospitals and health care systems.
Institute of Medicine-Projects and Reports
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)—National nonprofit organization representing local public health agencies (including city, county, metro, district, and Tribal agencies.)
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control—Provides expertise in environmental pesticide surveillance and disease outbreak investigations.
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF)—addresses issues such as health, clean water, educational excellence, and global competitiveness through environmental learning. Has created the Health & Environment Partnership, which is a national program designed to improve the environmental education of doctors, nurses, and public health care providers so they can provide better health care and protect the public's health.
Organization of Teratology Information Specialists(OTIS)—Helping to prevent birth defects through science and research. Access to specialists who can provide information about exposures related to reproduction and pregnancy.
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU)—Objective: to increase knowledge base of pediatric environmental medicine by providing a forum for environmental specialists and pediatricians to combine knowledge.
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Environment & Health—Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is a leading public policy organization with 24,000 members representing the medical and public health professions and concerned citizens, working together for nuclear disarmament, a healthful environment, and an end to the epidemic of gun violence.
Preventing Harm—This is a resource and action center on children and the environment.
The Science and Environmental Health Network—Advocates the wise application of science to protecting the environment and public health. SEHN serves as both network and think tank for the environmental movement, helping environmental organizations use science in their work, guiding scientists to public interest research and public service, informing public policy with science grounded in ethics and logic.
TOX TOWN—Tox Town is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine and was launched in October 2002. Tox Town is designed to give you information on:
- everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals
- non-technical descriptions of chemicals
- links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the Internet
- how the environment can impact human health
- Internet resources on environmental health topics
TOXNET—a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
Trust for America's Health—a national non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the health and safety of all communities from current and emerging health threats by strengthening the fundamentals of our public health defenses.
University of Maryland School of Nursing—a one-stop shop created by the University of Maryland School of Nursing for nurses interested in environmental health.
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
