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RSVP now for the next CHE Partnership Call - Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Production Impacts Health and the Environment
Tues., July 15 at 10am PT

 

Now available: MP3 recording and useful resources from the recent call on environmental impacts on autoimmune diseases - July 1, 2008


Recently released: Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility)


5/20/08: The New York Times on BPA: "A Hard Plastic is Raising Hard Questions"

5/9/08: CHE featured in AARP: "The Body Toxic"

5/9/08: CHE Partner Dr. Philip Landrigan interview in Discover: "How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?"


5/7/08: An MP3 recording of the latest CHE Partnership Call Sick Plastic, Sick People? The Science and Policy of Bisphenol A is now available!


5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment

2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 

1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 
 

3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production.

9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields


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Our Health and the Health of the Environment: How are They Connected? What Can We do to Improve Both?

The CHE Public Policy Primer


Webster's defines a primer as a book of elementary principles or a book for teaching children how to read. The new CHE primer Our Health and the Health of the Environment How Are They Connected? What Can We Do To Improve Both? aims at providing its readers with some elemental principles of environmental health.


Through the examples of asthma, learning disabilities and breast cancer, the primer explains what we are learning about the links between chronic illness, toxic chemicals and other environmental contaminants. The primer also gives examples of legislative and corporate policies aimed at improving our health and the health of the environment.


CHE Partners are encouraged to use the primer as part of discussions with elected officials or those running for public office. Printed copies are available free from CHE or a PDF version of primer may be downloaded.

 


The Cases of Asthma, Learning Disabilities and Breast Cancer

Policies That Phase Out and Replace Chemicals With Safer Alternatives

Policies to Expand the Use of Health Tracking and Biomonitoring

Policies that Use Precaution to Make Decisions

Purchasing for Environmental Health

Creating a Chemicals Policy

Policies Championed by CHE Partners


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