Resources for Parents and Kids

Links to organizations and agencies

Recommended Academic Reading (by topic)

General:

• EPA Healthy Environments, Healthy Kids Powerpoint presentation (EPA website. 1MB) Provides an introduction to children's environmental health issues
• Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health (CEHN website)
  This webpage provides extensive links to more information, indexed by topic, source, target audience, and geographic location
• Developmental pediatrics: children and the environment (PEHSU Powerpoint slides)
• EPA Environmental Kids Club
• NIEHS Kids Pages

Healthy Homes:

• CDC Healthy Homes Initiative webpage
• Healthy Home assessment tool (EPA website)
• Poison-proof Your Home: One Room at a Time
• Preventing Pests at Home (alternatives to pesticides)

Asthma:

• Clear your home of asthma triggers (EPA website)
• Parent's checklist before going to the pediatric respiratory specialist (MS Word 149 KB)
• Parent's guide: Help your child gain control over asthma (CDC website)

Pesticides/Chemicals:

• Questions About Pesticides on Foods. (PDF)
• Play it Safe: Reduce Your Child's Chances of Pesticide Poisoning
• Pthalates in Food and Medical Devices. (PDF) Provides information on potential adverse effects of a chemical found in plastics.
• Lead and PCBs: A toxic legacy in Anniston, AL (PEHSU Powerpoint slides)

Physicians

Links to organizations and agencies

Recommended Academic Reading (by topic)

General Resources:

• Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health (CEHN website)
  This webpage provides extensive links to more information, indexed by topic, source, target audience, and geographic location
• Developmental pediatrics: children and the environment (PEHSU Powerpoint slides)
• Environmental Health Perspectives online journal. Search for (free) peer-reviewed journal articles on topics of environmental impacts on human health
• Drinking Water and Disease: What Every Healthcare Provider Should Know (PDF. Physicians for Social Responsibility website)
• Cancer and the Environment: What Healthcare Providers Should Know (PDF. PSR website)
• Lead and PCBs: A toxic legacy in Anniston, AL (PEHSU Powerpoint slides)

Respiratory Illness:

• Guidance for clinicians on the recognition and management of health effects related to mold exposure and moisture indoors, University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC website)
• Asthma and the Role of Air Pollution: What the Primary Care Physician Should Know (PDF. PSR website)
• Environmental factors in pediatric respiratory disease (PEHSU Powerpoint slides)
• Childhood Asthma information and contacts (EPA website)
• Pulmonary Clinical Evaluation Form (MS Word)

Schools

See our Schools webpage

(includes free evaluation tools, links to environmental health curriculum, and topical resources on air quality, building design, school violence, transportation, and more!)