Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) - CEHN is a national multidisciplinary project dedicated to protect the fetus and the child from environmental hazards and promote a healthy environment. This site provides an overview of children's environmental health issues, a Training Manual on Pediatric Environmental Health, and a resource guide of related programs, projects and organizations.

Children's Health - (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC (ATSDR)) - This site provides summaries of ATSDR child health programs, such as the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units, as well as links to Toxicology Profiles and Public Health Assessments.

Children's Health Protection - (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.) - This site contains information on environmental factors in childhood cancers, developmental and neurological programs, and health effects of pesticides, metals and other hazardous substances. The site also focuses on current EPA activities in these areas on the local, state, federal, and international levels.

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit Region 4; Southeast Region - This is the site for one of several pediatric environmental health clinics providing information and consultation to health professionals on children's environmental health issues. Links to Teaching Materials, History of Children's Environmental Health, Other Resources, and Bibliography sections of the web site were described and demonstrated in the live satellite broadcast.

WHO Children's Environmental Health - (World Health Organization (WHO)) - This Web site contains WHO's work on children's environmental health, including National profiles, children's environmental health indicators, capacity building, and collaborative research efforts. The site also provides access to publications, statistics, and fact sheets on children's environmental health.

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Web Search Engines and Directories

Google - Google is a search engine. A search for TOXNET was demonstrated in the live satellite broadcast. Type TOXNET in the search box and click on Google Search.

Medical Matrix - Medical Matrix is a subject-specific directory on health and medical issues. Medical Matrix is free, but registration is required.

MedlinePlus - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) - MedlinePlus provides extensive information from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases and conditions.

Yahoo - Yahoo is a search directory. Search directories are databases of Web sites that have been organized by topic.

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Pesticides and Children's Health

Hazardous Substances Data Bank - TOXNET is an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes access to the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). The audience was reminded to consider searching HSDB for additional information on mercury and its effects on pregnancy and/or children.

Pesticides - (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.) - This site contains consumer and technical information on pesticides including health effects, pesticide registration, and integrated pest management.

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Environmental Triggers of Asthma

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Asthma Web Site - This is NCEH's new Web site on asthma that contains information on NCEH's Asthma Control Program for children and adolescents, asthma statistics, funding information, and a speaker's kit.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics, Faststats A to Z Asthma - This site contains statistics on asthma and links to other resources on asthma.

National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE/PubMed - MEDLINE/PubMed is NLM's search service to access the over 11 million citations in MEDLINE (with links to participating online journals), and other related databases. It includes the capability to limit searches to the Toxicology subset of MEDLINE.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) - The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The Program is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers.

TOXLINE - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) - Bibliographic database for toxicology that provides information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

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Funding Resources for Lead Poisoning Prevention and Grant-Writing Tools

CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - This site provides links to CDC resources and activities on lead poisoning prevention including surveillance data, policy and legislation resources, guidelines and recommendations, and training programs.

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Programs - This site contains funding applications for lead-based paint hazard control, healthy homes research, and healthy homes demonstration and education. Also included are descriptions of previously funded programs.

Tips On Writing a Grant Proposal - (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.) - EPA developed this program to help communities and non-profit organizations identify financial assistance opportunities for their environmental-oriented development programs. Also, this program was developed to make it easier for applicants to produce more competitive grant applications.

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Healthy People 2010 and Environmental Health

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), America's Children and the Environment: A First view of Available Measures - This is EPA's first report on trends in measures reflecting environmental factors that may affect the health and well being of children in the United States. This report represents an initial step in the identification, development, and compilation of a set of measures that fully reflect environmental factors important for children.

Healthy People 2010 Environmental Health - (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC (ATSDR), National Institutes of Health (NIH)) - This site links to the Healthy People 2010 chapter on Environmental Health. To address the broad range of human health issues affected by the environment, this chapter discusses six topics: outdoor air quality, water quality, toxics and waste, healthy homes and healthy communities, infrastructure and surveillance, and global environmental health issues.

Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project, Environmental Health - (Public Health Foundation, National Library of Medicine) - The purpose of this site is to make information and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 environmental health objectives easier to find. The National Library of Medicine and the Public Health Foundation staff have worked together to develop pre-formulated search strategies of MEDLINE for selected Healthy People 2010 environmental health objectives as well as links to additional environmental health resources.

Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: A Field Guide to Health Planning - (Public Health Foundation (PHF)) - This is a direct link to a toolkit containing resource to assist in the planning of a state of local program for Healthy People 2010.

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Mercury Contamination of Fish and Fish Consumption by Pregnant Women and Small Children

Hazardous Substances Data Bank - TOXNET is an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes access to the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). The audience was reminded to consider searching HSDB for additional information on mercury and its effects on pregnancy and/or children.

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The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Public Health

GIS in Public Health - (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC (ATSDR)) - This site contains resources for the use of geographic information systems in public health.

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Additional Resources Highlighted

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), ToxFAQs - ATSDR ToxFAQs is a series of summaries about hazardous substances excerpted from ATSDR Toxicological Profiles and Public Health Statements. Each fact sheet serves as a quick and easy- to-understand guide. Answers are provided to the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) about exposure to hazardous substances found at hazardous waste sites and the effects of exposure on human health.

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH), Environmental Health - NOAH is a popular Web resource for consumer health information. Environmental health resources include some New York-specific sites and also excellent general environmental health resources including many in Spanish.

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