Environmental Health 2022: Resources

Section	Name	Description
Module 1: Lesson 1: Introduction to Environmental Health	Definitions of Environmental Health	Read the entire page.
	Occupational Health(Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing)	Read from the beginning of the page to the heading "4.wellbeing."
	Linkages Between Environmental and Occupational Health	Read from the content under the heading "Reasons for Linking Environmental and Occupational Health" to the end of the page.
	What Is Environmental Justice?	Read the definition of Environmental Justice.
	Environmental Health Hazards(2017)	Read the content under the headings 2.1 and 2.2.
	What is Environmental Health?	Read pages 32-35 to understand the concept of individual susceptibility.
	Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments: A global Assessment of the Burden of Disease from Environmental Risks	Read from the content under the heading "Executive Summary" on page X to the end of page XXIII.
	Determinants of Health	Read the entire page
	The Role of Environment in One Health and National Health Security	Read the entire document
	Towards Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Environment–Human Linkages	Read the entire page

Module 1: Lesson 2: Governments and Environmental Health Issues	The Use of Legislation in Environmental Control	Read the entire page
	What Are Environmental Laws?	Watch the entire video(2 min 45 sec).
	Introduction to Social Vulnerability	Read the entire document
	Hygiene and Environmental Health	Read the content under the heading "Social hazards."
	Hygiene and Environmental Health	Read the content under the heading "Cultural/practice-related hazards."
	Globalization and Public Health - Three perspectives	Watch the entire video(3 min 42 sec).
	Globalization and Health	Read the entire article

Module 2: Lesson 1: Major Environmental agents	Physical, Chemical and Biological Hazards	Read the entire page.
	Environmental Agents Overview	Read the entire page. Optionally, you can click on each title to complement each agent's information.
	Conditions & Diseases	Read the entire page up to the heading "Additional Topics" and click on each disease heading. Inside each disease page, read until the heading "What is NIEHS doing" or until the end of the page if the heading is missing.

Module 2: Lesson 2: Major Occupational Agents	Toxicological Agents & Chemicals	Read the content under the heading occupational toxicology on pages 8-13.
	Action is Needed on Chemicals of Major Public Health Concern	Read the entire Document
	Effects of Work on Health: Psychosocial Risk Factors	Read the content under the heading "1. Psychosocial Risk Factors" from pages 3 to 9.
	Biological Agents	Read pages 2-7.
	Chapter 2.4 : Physical Agents	This document provides comprehensive information about physical agents. Read the content under the following headlines(Including subheadlines): "1.1 What do you know about noise?" "1.2 Which are the health effects?" "2.1 What do you know about vibration?" "2.2 Which are the health effects?" "3.1 What do you know about radiation?" "3.2 Which are the health effects?" "3.4 What do you know about non-ionizing radiation?" "3.5 Which are the health effects?" "4.1 What do you know about lighting?" "4.2 Which are the health effects?" "5.1 What do you know about cold environment?" "5.2 Which are the health effect?" "B) Hot environment" on page 26 "5.6 Which are the health effect?" "6.1 What do you know about the occupational exposure at air pressure?" "6.2 Which are the health effect?"
	Occupational Injuries: Global and Local Perspectives	Read the entire Article
	Environmental and Occupational Public Health	Read from the content under the heading "Abstract" to the heading "6.3 Systems and Power: The Ethical Importance of Ecological and Social Context."
	Health Effects of Environmental Exposures, Occupational Hazards and Climate Change in Ethiopia: Synthesis of Situational Analysis, Needs Assessment and the Way Forward	Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Results," and "Discussion."
	The Prevention of Occupational Diseases	Read pages 4-11
	Aerospace Medicine	Read from the beginning of the page until the heading "Board Certification."
	Aerospace Medicine Overview	Read the entire page
	Body of Knowledge for The Practice of Travel Medicine as Defined by the ISTM	Read the entire table
	Common Health Risks, Required Precautions of Travelers and their Customs Towards the Use of Travel Medicine Services	Read the entire page and analyze how travel medicine is related to environmental health.
	Careers	Read the entire page and watch the video(10 min 10 sec)

Module 3: Lesson 1: Environmental Hazards	A Review of Methods Used for Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment of Environmental Hazards	Read the content under the headings "Introduction," "Results," and "Discussion."
	Understanding Risk and Hazard	Read the entire page.
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): National Center for Environmental Health	Watch the entire video(5 min 48 sec).
	Hazard Identification (United States Environmental Protection Agency)	Click on the heading "Hazard Identification" and read the entire page.
	Hazard Controls	Read the entire page.
	Methods for Monitoring and Control of Environmental Hazards (Including Food and Water Safety, Atmospheric Pollution and other Toxic Hazards, Noise, and Ionising and Electromagnetic Radiation) and Cluster Investigations	Read the entire page.

Module 3: Lesson 2: Mechanisms of toxicity	Toxicology(NIH)	Read the content under the headings "Whats is Toxicology," "What is a Toxicologist?" and "How does the Science of Toxicology Improve People's Lives?"
	Environmental Health Risk Assessment	Read the content under the heading "9.1 Toxicity Testing – Major In Vivo Study Types" on page 114-115.
	Sources and Toxicity of Pollutants	Read the content under the headings "Introduction" and "Types and sources of toxicants."
	Taking an Exposure History What Are Other Potential Sources and Pathways of Hazardous Exposure in the Home and Environment?	Read the entire page.
	Principles of Pediatric Environmental Health What Are Common Sources of Toxicants to Which Children May Be Exposed	Read the entire page, pay attention to the agents' sources that may be common to other people.
	Chemical Hazards and Toxic Substances	Read from the beginning of the page to the heading "Additional Information."
	Toxicology: Royal Society Of Chemistry	Watch the entire video (4min).
	Air Pollution is a Truly Damaging Environmental Insult to the Human Body	Wacht the video (4 min 10 sec).

Module 4: Lesson 1: Risk Assessment	Human Health Risk Assessments Explained	Watch the entire video(2 min 50 sec).
	Conducting a Human Health Risk Assessment	Read the entire page, then click on each of the five tabs and read its content(Planning, Hazard Identification, Dose-Response, Exposure Assessment, and Risk characterization).
	Principles of Exposure, Dose, and Response	Read slides 4-5.
	Exposure and Dose Rates	Read the content under the heading "Exposure and Dose Rates."
	Exposure Assessment Tools by Approaches	Click on "Direct Measurement," "Indirect estimation," and "Exposure reconstruction" and read the content under the heading "Overview" on each of them.
	Guidelines for Human Exposure Assessment	Read the content under the heading "2.3.2. Overview of Exposure Assessment" and "2.3.3. Approaches for Exposure Assessment" on pages 12-16.
	A Cumulative Risk Perspective for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Professionals	Read from the end of the table on page 3 to the title "2.2. Initiating Factors Prompting CRAs in the Workplace" on page 5.
	A Cumulative Risk Perspective for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Professionals	Read the definition of "Cumulative exposure." in Table 1.
	About Exposure	Read the entire page.
	Human Biomonitoring – An Overview on Biomarkers and their Application in Occupational and Environmental Health	Read the entire article.
	Scientific Opinion of the PPR Panel on the Follow‐up of the Findings of the External Scientific Report ‘Literature Review of Epidemiological Studies Linking Exposure to Pesticides and Health Effects’	Read the content under the heading "2. General framework of epidemiological studies on pesticides" and the subheading "2.1 Study Design" to understand the different epidemiological designs' key features.
	Association or Causation: Evaluating Links Between "Environment and d\Disease"	Read the entire document.
	Physical and Social Environmental Factors	Read from the beginning of the article to the heading "Question 1. Do environmental factors matter to health?." Then read the content under the heading "Conclusions."
	Environmental Justice (Environmental Justice)	Read the definition of Environmental Justice.
	What is Environmental Health Equity?	Watch the video(4 min 45 sec).
	Equity & Environmental Justice	Read the content under the heading "Equity & Environmental Justice."
	Genetic Susceptibility and the Setting of Occupational Health Standards	Read the content under the headings "Role of Genetics in the Variability of Response to Occupational exposures" and "The Use of Genetic Information in Quantitative Risk Assessment."
	Gene-Environment Interactions & Epigenetics	Read the entire page.
	Climate Change and Women’s Health: Impacts and Policy Directions	Read the content of Table 1.
	Social and Gender Inequalities in Environment and Health	Read the content from the heading "Evidence summary: Current knowledge on social inequalities and environmental risk "on page 4 to the heading "Conclusions" on page 13.
	Unequal Exposure and Unequal Impacts: Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution, Noise and Extreme Temperatures in Europe	Read the content under the heading "Executive Summary" on page 8-10.
	Guide for conducting Community Risk Assessment	Read the pages 1-32.
	Managing Risks and Risk Assessment at Work	Read the entire page, then click on the links "Steps needed to manage risk," "Risk assessment template and examples," and "More detail on managing risk" and read its content.
	Hygiene and Environmental Health	Read the content under the heading "1.3.3 Environmental intervention models."
	Environmental Insults: Critical Triggers for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Background," and "Environmental Insults in ALS."
	Environmental Hazards and Life Expectancy in Africa: Evidence From GARCH Model.	Read the content under the heading "Abstract," "Introduction," and "Conclusion and Policy Recommendations."

Module 4: Lesson 2: Risk Management	Factors Influencing Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions in Public Health Systems - A Model	Read the content under the heading "Abstract" and "Results."
	The Precautionary Principle: Definitions, Applications and Governance	Read from the content under the heading "Executive Summary."
	Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies: Challenges and Solutions	Read the entire article.
	Healthy School Environments	Read the entire article.
	Community Engaged Leadership to Advance Health Equity and Build Healthier Communities	Read the entire article.
	National Center for Environmental Health	Read the entire page.
	About NIEHS	Read the entire page.
	About EPA	Read the entire page.

Module 4: Lesson 3: Risk Communication	Interprofessional Collaboration in Research, Education, and Clinical Practice: Working Together for a Better Future	Read the content under the headings: "Introduction" "What Is Collaboration?" "Benefits of Collaboration" "Interprofessional Collaboration in Practice" "Potential Barriers to Collaboration" "Suggested Resources" "Conclusion"
	Guidelines for Human Exposure Assessment	Read the content under the heading "Chapter 7. Planning and Implementing an Observational Human Exposure Measurement Study" on page 130.
	Health, Justice, and the Environment	Read the entire article.
	Why We Need Climate, Health, and Equity in All Policies	Read the entire article.

Module 5: Lesson 1: Natural Disasters	Disaster Hazards	Look for your region in the list and read the common natural disasters registered. Then, read for common natural disasters in at least the other five regions of your interest.
	Natural Hazards and Natural Disasters	Read from the beginning of the page to the end under the heading "Effects of Hazards."
	Natural Disasters and Injuries: What Does a Surgeon Need to Know?	Read the entire paper.
	Health Impacts of Selected Types of Natural Hazards	Read table number 1.
	Disaster Technical Assistance Center Supplemental Research Bulletin Greater Impact: How Disasters Affect People of Low Socioeconomic Status	Read from the heading "Disaster Impact" on page 6 to the end of page 12.
	Disasters and Emergencies Preparing and Responding	Read the entire page.
	Disaster Technical Assistance Center Supplemental Research Bulletin Greater Impact: How Disasters Affect People of Low Socioeconomic Status	Read from the heading "Introduction" on page 3 to the end of page 6.
	Natural Hazards and Natural Disasters	Read the content under the heading "Vulnerability to Hazards and Disasters" to the heading "This Course."
	The Evolution of Public Health Emergency Management as a Field of Practice	Read the entire article.
	Natural Disasters Could Cost 20 Percent More By 2040 Due to Climate Change	Read the entire page.
	Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters	Read the content under the headings "Abstract" and "Conclusions."
	Natural Disasters and Severe Weather	Click on the following links in the left menu and read its content(The links appear below the main text in mobile): Hurricanes and COVID-19 Earthquakes Extreme Heat Floods Hurricanes Landslides & Mudslides Lightning Tornadoes Tsunamis Volcanoes Wildfires Winter Weather

Module 5: Lesson 2: Man Made Disasters	The Tragic Effects of Man Made Disasters	Read the entire page.
	Natural Catastrophes and Man-made Disasters in 2018: “Secondary” Perils on the Frontline	Read from the heading "Executive Summary" to the end of page 6
	Man-made Disasters and Public Health	Read the entire page.
	Disasters and Environmental Health	Read the entire page.

Module 5: Lesson 3: Psychosocial Health and the Environment	Mental health and the Environment	Read the table on page 4.
	Examining the Impact of Natural Disasters on Addiction	Read the entire page.
	Mental health in Emergencies	Read the section "Effective Emergency Response".
	Disaster Management: Mental Health Perspective	Read the sections "What is the role of mental health professionals in a disaster situation?" and "What is the efficacy of the psychological interventions?".
	NPW 2018: Prevention After Natural Disasters	Watch the entire video. (60 minutes)
	Caring For The Environment Helps to Care For Your Mental Health	Read the entire page.
	Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas	Read the entire article.

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