Good physical and mental health throughout the community is essential to allow citizens to participate fully in community life. This section offers information on health, nutrition, and recreation options and provides selected examples of policies and programs that make them possible.
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Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN), 5900 Hollis Street, Suite R3, Emeryville, CA 94608, Tel: 510.597.1393, Fax: 510.597.1399, Email: cehn@cehn.org, Website: http://www.cehn.org. CEHN is a national multidisciplinary project dedicated to promoting a healthy environment and to protecting the fetus and the child from environmental hazards. Its website contains a Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health, a Training Manual on Pediatric Environmental Health, and general information on this issue.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), c/o UCSF Center for the Health Professions, 3333 California Street, Suite 410, San Francisco, CA 94118, Tel: 415.476.7081, Fax: 415.476.4113, Email: ccph@itsa.ucsf.edu, Website: http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html. CCPH fosters health-promoting partnerships between communities and educational institutions. Papers commissioned for its 4th annual conference are available on its web site.
Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI), Health Resources and Services Adminsitration (HRSA), Tel: 1.888.ASK.HRSA, Website: http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov. This online project provides reports of health status indicators for every county in the U.S. for use in characterizing the overall health of a county and its citizens to support health planning. Information for understanding, interpreting and using the reports is available.
Sustainable Tourism Resource Database, The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 393, rue St-Jacques Ouest, Bureau 200, Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1N9 Canada, Tel: 514.350.4300, Fax: 514.350.4314, Email: info@ccemtl.org, Website: http://cec.org/databases/certifications/Cecdata/index.cfm?websiteID=2. This searchable online database contains information on tourism services and facilities in North America that link tourism activities with the conservation of natural areas.
Health and Fitness: Alternative Medicine, Website: http://webcrawler.com./health/alternative_medicine. This Webcrawler site contains links to a variety of alternative medicine sites.
Intergarden, Website: http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/permaculture.html. This website contains archives of information, active discussion forums and collections of links, all developed for and coevolving with an international community interested in a variety of sustainable agriculture and other sustainability issues.
YAHOO!'s Alternative Medicine directory is a great resource for new health options. http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Alternative_Medicine/
YAHOO!'s Environmental Medicine at http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Environmental_Health/
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Earth Pledge Foundation. Sustainable Cuisine White Papers. (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2000). This book is a collection of 39 essays on the link between food quality, environmental issues and culinary traditions. To obtain this resource contact Chelsea Green Publishing Company, P.O. Box 428, Gates-Briggs Building #205, White River Junction, VT 05001; Tel: 800.639.4099; Fax: 802.295.6444; Website: http://www.chelseagreen.com.
Frumkin, Dr. Howard. "Beyond Toxicity: Human Health and the Natural Environment" (American Journal of Preventative Medicine, vol 20, issue 3 (April 2001)). This article examines exposure to the environment as a way to improve human health and calls on the medical community to help link environmental health principles with large-scale environmental design. This resource can be found online at: http://www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm.
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development. (Cambridge, MA: Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, 2000). This report, part of a joint education project with Clean Water Fund, examines the contribution of toxic chemicals to developmental, learning and behavioral disabilities. It provides a wealth of information for parents, educators, scientists, advocates, public health and public policy professionals. To obtain this resource contact Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. This resource can be found online at: http:www.igc.org/psr.
Hamm, Jim, director. The Air We Breathe. (Hamm Productions, Ltd., and the National Film Board of Canada, 1996). This video traces the damaging connection between suburban sprawl, our addiction to the automobile, air pollution and disturbing increases in asthma and other respiratory diseases. To obtain this resource contact Bullfrog Films, P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; Tel: 800.543.3764; Email: info@bullfrogfilms.com; Website: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com.
Monahan, Patricia. Pollution Score Card: Grading America's School Bus Fleets. (Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists, 2002). This report assesses the pollution performance of state school bus fleets and gives them clean-air grades, ranging from "outstanding" to "failure". To obtain this resource contact UCS Publcations, Two Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02238-9105; Tel: 617.547.5552; Email: pubs@ucsusa.org. This resource can be found online at: http://www.ucsusa.org.
National Ski Areas Association. Sustainable Slopes: the Environmental Charter for Ski Areas. The Charter contains a set of far-reaching voluntary environmental principles affecting ski areas across the nation and addresses all aspects of resort operation, including planning and design, water and energy use, habitat and forest management, as well as waste management. This resource can be found online at: http://www.nsaa.org/environ/index.asp.
Thomas, William H., M.D. Life Worth Living: The Eden Alternative in Action. (Action, MA: VanderWyk & Burnham, 1996). This book describes the "Eden Alternative" program, which transforms nursing homes into lively human habitats with gardens, children, animals, and birds. To obtain this resource contact VanderWyk & Burnham, P.O. Box 2789, Acton, MA 01720.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. America's Children and the Environment: A First View of Available Measures. (2001). 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. It presents quantitative measures of trends in environmental contaminant levels in air, water, food and soil, concentrations of contaminants in children's bodies, and childhood diseases that may be influenced by environmental factors. To obtain this resource contact U.S.EPA/NSCEP, P.O. Box 42419, Cincinatti, OH 45242-0419; Tel: 800.490.9198; Fax: 512.489.8695; Email: ncepiaml@one.net. This resource can be found online at: http://www.epa.gov/children/indicators/download.html.
Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996)
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