scholarly journals Monographs on pediatric environmental health: A cooperative agreement award from the Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry of the CDC

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica L. Liebelt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Disease Registry ◽  
Cooperative Agreement

scholarly journals Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Roles in Hurricane Response and Postdisaster Mosquito Control1

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2s) ◽  
pp. 78-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ruiz ◽  
Justin Gerding ◽  
Miguel Cruz ◽  
Joseph Laco ◽  
Renee Funk
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Mosquito Control ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Disease Registry ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control

ABSTRACT Hurricanes and other natural disasters leave behind multifaceted and complex environmental challenges that may contribute to adverse health outcomes, such as increased potential for exposure to vector-borne disease. Through an incident management system tailored for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) fulfills a leadership role in facilitating the agency's natural disaster emergency response activities through coordination with other CDC programs, liaising with other government agencies and impacted jurisdictions, and responding to requests for technical assistance. On the ground, NCEH/ATSDR deploys environmental health (EH) practitioners who provide consultation and inform mosquito control efforts from a systematic perspective. In the wake of recent hurricanes, NCEH staff mobilized to manage critical elements of the responses and to provide assets for addressing environmental hazards and conditions that contributed to the presence of mosquitoes. In this article, we describe NCEH/ATSDR's emergency response roles and responsibilities, interactions within the national emergency response framework, and provision of EH technical assistance and resources, particularly in the context of postdisaster mosquito control.

An Overview of Ethics and Environmental Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 697-703
Author(s):  
David B. Resnik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Health Ethics ◽  
Wide Range

This chapter provides an overview of the ethics of environmental health, and it introduces five chapters in the related section of The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics. A wide range of ethical issues arises in managing the relationship between human health and the environment, including regulation of toxic substances, air and water pollution, waste management, agriculture, the built environment, occupational health, energy production and use, environmental justice, population control, and climate change. The values at stake in environmental health ethics include those usually mentioned in ethical debates in biomedicine and public health, such as autonomy, social utility, and justice, as well as values that address environmental concerns, such as animal welfare, stewardship of biological resources, and sustainability. Environmental health ethics, therefore, stands at the crossroads of several disciplines, including public health ethics, environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, and business ethics.

Fluoride partitioning in rice (Oryza sativa) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) upon irrigation with fluoride‐contaminated water and its risk assessment

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
S. K. Jha ◽  
T. Damodaran ◽  
C. L. Verma ◽  
V. K. Mishra ◽  
D. k. Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
Human Health Risk ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Contaminated Water ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Disease Registry ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Contaminated Irrigation Water

Fluoride (F) contamination has become a global environmental problem affecting more than 25 countries and the cure of the associated disease “fluorosis” is not yet known. Now it has been realized that a sizable amount of F intake also takes place through the ingestion of food. Therefore, F partitioning in rice (Oryza sativa) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) and its exposure in human was evaluated under pot culture experiment using F‐contaminated irrigation water. In both rice and wheat, F accumulation in the tissue parts of plant followed the order: grain < straw < root. The grain of rice and wheat contained F between 11.51 and 22.55 mg kg‐1 and 11.56 and 15.43 mg kg‐1, respectively in the treatment range of 0 ‐ 8 mg F l‐1. The cumulative EDI calculated at the maximum F concentration in rice and wheat grains for children, sedentary men and women was found to be higher than the limits stipulated by Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), USA. In conclusion, the fluoride poses potential health risks to humans due to the consumption of F contaminated rice and wheat, children being more susceptible/affected than the sedentary adult ones. Therefore, a constant surveillance and monitoring program is highly warranted for determining the human health risk by considering F exposure due to various sources viz., ingestion, drinking water, water used in cooking and other dietary sources.

Environmental Pediatrics and Its Impact on Government Health Policy

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 113 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 1146-1157
Author(s):  
Lynn Goldman ◽  
Henry Falk ◽  
Philip J. Landrigan ◽  
Sophie J. Balk ◽  
J. Routt Reigart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Lead Poisoning ◽  
Birth Defects ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Centers Of Excellence ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Children’S Environmental Health

Recent public recognition that children are different from adults in their exposures and susceptibilities to environmental contaminants has its roots in work that began &gt;46 years ago, when the American Academy of Pediatrics (APA) established a standing committee to focus on children’s radiation exposures. We summarize the history of that important committee, now the AAP Committee on Environmental Health, including its statements and the 1999 publication of the AAP Handbook of Pediatric Environmental Health, and describe the recent emergence of federal and state legislative and executive actions to evaluate explicitly environmental health risks to children. As a result in large part of these efforts, numerous knowledge gaps about children’s health and the environment are currently being addressed. Government efforts began in the 1970s to reduce childhood lead poisoning and to monitor birth defects and cancer. In the 1990s, federal efforts accelerated with the Food Quality Protection Act, an executive order on children’s environmental health, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/Environmental Protection Agency Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units, and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/Environmental Protection Agency Centers of Excellence in Research in Children’s Environmental Health. In this decade, the Children’s Environmental Health Act authorized the National Children’s Study, which has the potential to address a number of critical questions about children’s exposure and health. The federal government has expanded efforts in control and prevention of childhood asthma and in tracking of asthma, birth defects, and other diseases that are linked to the environment. Efforts continue on familiar problems such as the eradication of lead poisoning, but new issues, such as prevention of childhood exposure to carcinogens and neurotoxins other than lead, and emerging issues, such as endocrine disruptors and pediatric drug evaluations, are in the forefront. More recently, these issues have been taken up by states and in the international arena.

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