| Children's Health and the Environment |
Pan American Health Organization Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS) resources and inform
ation.
http://www.cepis.ops-oms.org/bvsana/i/home.htm
A resource action center on children and environmental health. Focus on the many chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home are toxic to the developing brain and can cause developmental disabilities including behavioral and learning disabilities, hyper-activity, attention deficit, lower IQ and motor skill impairment.
http://www.preventingharm.org/
| Children's Health Environmental Coalition |
CHEC dedicated to prevention of non-genetic childhood cancer and other environmentally caused childhood illnesses.
http://www.checnet.org/
U.S. based advocate for the protection of childrens environmental health in schools. News, guides, reports and resources
.
http://www.healthyschools.org/
| Children's Environmental Health Information Resources |
National Network of Libraries of Medicine project to provide public health professionals with access to information reso
urces.
http://nnlm.gov/partners/children/
| Institute for Children's Environmental Health |
The primary mission of ICEH is to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health and well-being of children and to detoxify environments wherever children spend tim
e.
http://www.iceh.org/
| University of California Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit |
PEHSU is one of several regional federally funded clinical and educational centers. Provides information on programs and services for expert clinical and public health evaluations of children and communities with suspected environmental health problems.
http://www.ucsf.edu/ucpehsu/
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