Environmental Health Scan Exercise

1.   Environmental Health Scan Exercise DRAFT Abstract and Report

2.   Environmental Health Scan Exercise DRAFT Attachment: SPSS Report

3.   EPHLI Cohort IV 2008-2009 Mentor Teams

4.   Reading List #1: Scanning and Emerging Environmental Issues

• Integrated Assessment of Environment and Health: America’s Children and the Environment
• Emerging Environmental Issues 2000: 80th AMS Annual Meeting
• And Justice for All: Designing Your Business Case for Integrating Justice Information: Appendix A.1 Tools for assessing your current situation & comparing it to others
• Prioritizing Environmental Issues around the World: Opinions from an International Central and Eastern European Environmental Health Conference

5.   Reading List #2: EPA Reports

• Proceedings of California’s Emerging Environmental Challenges: A Workshop to Identify Future issues for CAL/EPA, June 25-26, 1998, Sacramento, California
• Children’s Health and the Environment in North America A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures, Country Report: United States Prepared by the US Environmental Protection Agency, December 2005

6.   Reading List #3 and #4

• Useful Websites

7.   Reading List #5: Climate Change

• Climate Change 101: Adaptation
• Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper: Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government
• Climate Change Is a Public Health Issue
• Climate Change Websites
• CDC Policy on Climate Change and Public Health
• Health Effects of Exposure to Extreme Heat (CDC)
• Emerging Issues: Adapting To Climate Change
• Congressional Resolution: Public Health Week 2008, Climate Change: Our Health in Balance

8.   Reading List #6: Newspaper and Journal Articles

• University Environmental Health Program Recruitment and Stability: A Systems Analysis
• Dania Residents: Toxic dust made us sick, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
• Environmental health leader graduates from CDC leadership program, DeSoto Sun Herald 04/15/08
• Report cites chemical's risk Bisphenol A may be harmful, federal agency says, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
• Researchers Mimic Bacteria To Produce Magnetic Nanoparticles -- "ScienceDaily" Chevy Chase, MD, Apr. 15, 2008
• Senators rip EPA over lack of knowledge on drugs in water -- "Associated Press (AP)" New York, NY

9.   Reading List #7: APHA US Environmental Public Health Reports

• Meeting Needs in Alabama
• APHA Environmental Public Health Brochure
• Washington (State) and Environmental Public Health
• Meeting Needs in California
• Meeting Needs in Iowa
• Meeting Needs in Pennsylvania

10.  Reading List #8: Daily Life Issues

• Chronic Disease, Injury Prevention, and Environmental Health Fact Sheet January 2006: The Built Environment, Physical Activity, and Health
• EPA Opens Chemical Risk Assessment To Corporate Lobbying: "Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Press Release"
• Newspaper Articles
• Useful Websites on Other Issues

11.  Reading List #9: Community Issues

• The Surveys Are In! The Role of Local Government in Supporting Active Community Design
• Ensuring Healthy Communities: Results of the 2006 State Environmental Health Directors Survey ASTHO Report
• Environmental injustice: case studies from the South
• Florida Department of Health: Better by Design Community
• Urban Sprawl and Public Health

12.  Reading List #10: EPA Reports

• Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for EPA: A Report from the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, September 2002
• EPA’s 2007 Report on the Environment:  Highlights of National Trends Peer Review and Public Comment Draft August 2007

13.  Reading List #11: Workforce

• ASTHO Preparedness Policy Fact Sheet: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act Public Health Workforce FY08 Appropriation
• ASTHO Issue Brief March 2005: Public Health Workforce Shortage: Environmental Health Practitioners
• ASTHO Issue Brief June 2006: Hiring Strategies in State Health Agencies
• Workforce Issues E-mail 4/21/08
• ASTHO 2007 State Public Health Workforce Survey Results
• A Civil Service Recruitment and Retention Crisis

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