Internet Resources

The Internet can connect you to a lot of helpful information, but the web can also be overwhelming! Here we've selected some of the more useful sites that provide information on children's environmental health. (Listed in no particular order.)

1. http://www.cehn.org/ -- The comprehensive site of the Children's Environmental Health Network. Includes links to tons of information, especially through their resource guide, which allows users to search for information in a variety of ways (see http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/rghome.html).

2. http://www.iceh.org/ -- The Institute for Children's Environmental Health website provides basic information and links, but focuses mainly on these three aspects of children's environmental health: creating links between groups working on toxic threats and groups working on learning and developmental disabilities, building coalitions in the field of CEH, and educating teens about environmental health.

3. http://www.partnersforchildren.org/ -- Partners for Children is a partnership of over 90 organizations working on Children's Environmental Health, and coordinated by the ICEH. The website includes descriptions and links to various projects and collaborations that occur between within the partnership.

4. http://www.cheforhealth.org/ -- The Collaborative on Health and the Environment is a partnership network, and their website explains their areas of involvement. They have a learning and developmental disabilities working group focused on children's environmental health.

5. http://www.cehi.org -- The Children's Environmental Health Institute is a Texas-based organization. Its site provides information on its projects, and has special sections for physicians and parents.

6. http://psr.igc.org/index.htm -- Physicians for Social Responsibility is a public policy group working on children's environmental health, as well as other areas. The site provides great sources of information about CEH.

7. http://www.who.int/peh/ceh/ -- The WHO's main page for children's environmental health. The website provides a list of topics in the field, news updates, past articles, and relevant links.

8. http://www.preventingharm.org -- Preventing Harm is the Clean Water Fund's CEH organization. The site provides access to reports, a list of relevant organizations, and their projects.

9. http://www.envirohealthaction.org -- The Physicians for Social Responsibility's site on environmental health. The website includes information on CEH, as well as other environmental health areas. The site also offers suggestions for taking action.

10. http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/envirodx/ -- A web-based learning program on environmentally-related diseases. It is intended to be used by faculty, medical students, graduate students, and public health professionals.

11. http://www.noharm.org -- Health Care Without Harm is a coalition of stakeholders in the health care field who work to make health care ecologically-sustainable and no longer harmful to public health or the environment. The site offers lots of information on their issues (mercury, medical waste, healthy building, and more) and a searchable library.

12. http://www.childenvironment.org -- Mt.Sinai School of Medicine's Center for Children's Health and the Environment--an academic research and policy center--website, which is an extensive resource for anyone concerned about CEH.

13. http://www.beyondpesticides.org/main.html -- Organization to reduce or eliminate misuse of pesticides. Their website provides lots of information on pesticide use and alternatives.

14. http://www.checnet.org -- The Children's Health Environmental Coalition is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating those concerned about the welfare of children about how to reduce risks from environmental toxins. The site provides a wealth of information and especially great resources for parents.

15. http://www.childproofing.org/ -- The Childproofing Our Communities Campaign website, which is a program created by the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ). The website supplies information on reducing environmental hazards in schools across the nation.

16. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/children/ -- Children's Environmental Health section of the Minnesota Deptartment of Health. Tons of information and links to more.

17. http://children.cape.ca/ -- The website for the Children's Environmental Health Project, an initiative of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. The site summarizes these areas: environmental history-taking, respiratory effects, neurobehavioral effects, reproductive effects, cancer/immunological, dermatological, and prevention that clinicians can focus on. The site also offers additional resources.

18. http://www.inchesnetwork.org -- International Research and Inches (Information Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety) provides basic information on CEH with a somewhat more global perspective.

19. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/homepage -- The EPA Office of Children's Health Protection's website, which includes many reports, searchable databases, and more.

20. http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/default.asp -- The Natural Resources Defense Council's section on Kids' Health. The site supplies information, reports, and links on topics of CEH, plus an educational section for children.

21. http://www.cheforhealth.org/resources/CDCReportAnalysis.html -- The CDC National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (from January 2003), which charts high levels of pollutants in children.

22. http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/tools4s2.html -- EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Kit, which instructs schools on how to improve indoor air quality.

23. www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/caschoolair/cakids.html -- An Environmental Working Group report on children and air pollution in California.

24. http://www.healthychild.com -- Healthy Child Online is a parenting resource, which includes information on environmental health among other topics.

25. http://www.nichd.nih.gov -- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's site, which offers a searchable database and resources for researchers.

26. http://www.niehs.nih.gov/home.htm -- The National Institute of Health Sciences' very comprehensive website on environmental health.

27. http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/children/-- The Environmental Health Perspectives' website devoted to CEH.

28. http://www.panna.org - Informative website of The Pesticide Action Network, an organization based in California.

29. http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport -- The Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals from the CDC's site, with links to other reports, too.

30. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/child/ochchildhlth.html -- Homepage of ATSDR's Office of Children's Health focuses on toxicology and CEH.

31. http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/chilres1.htm -- The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research on Children's Health aims to increase and improve research on CEH.

32. http://www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/kids -- Great Lakes Center ofr Children's Environmental Health, Cook County Hospital, Chicago.

33. http://www.childrenshospital.org - Pediatric Environmental Health Center, Children's Hospital, Boston.

34. http://www.mssm.edu/cpm/peds_environ.shtml -- Mt. Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Unit, New York.

35. http://www.heath-e-kids.org - Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environmental, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC.

36. http://www.sph.emory.edu/PEHSU -- The Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at Emory University, Atlanta.

37. http://www.ucsf.edu/ucpehsu -- University of California (San Francisco and Irvine) Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.

38. http://www.depts.washington.edu/oemp/grants/PEHSU.html -- Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle.

Paper Resources

The Clean Air Council's own Resource Center, located in our Philadelphia offices (135 S. 19th Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103). The Resource Center is open M-F, 9 am - 5 pm. Click here for a spreadsheet that lists all of the articles, fact sheets, reports and books we have on hand, and charts the topics those resources cover.

Chivian E, McCally M, Hu H, and Haines A, ed. Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.

Colborn T, Dumanoski D, and Myers JP. Our Stolen Future. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1996.

Landrigan PJ, Needleman HL, and Landrigan M. Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions for Every Family. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 2001.

Raffensperger C., Tickner J. Protecting Public Health and the Environment. Island Press, 1999.

Satterthwaite, D. et al. The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards that Threaten Children and their Parents. London, England. Earthscan Publications, 1996.

Schneider, D and Freeman, N. 2000. Children's Environmental Health: Reducing Risk in a Dangerous World. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

Steingraber Sandra. Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. Vintage Books, 1998.

Steingraber, Sandra. Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2001.