Healthy Environments Across Generations -- Resources
Content Framers and Co-sponsors offer these additional resources to compliment the conversation from the conference. Resources will continue to be added as we receive them so check back often. We will also announce new postings on the conference Facebook page and via the conference listserv.
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
Healthy Home, Healthy Child: Protecting Your Children from Environmental Pollutants--What You Can Do
In partnership with WE ACT for Environmental Justice, we launched the Healthy Home Healthy Child community education campaign in 2000 to raise the overall environmental health awareness of residents in Washington Heights, Harlem, and the South Bronx in New York City. The campaign provides parents with practical tips for reducing harmful exposures and protect their children’s health, informs physicians and their patients about the health effects of environmental hazards, and conducts educational workshops for community leaders advocating for better air quality and other environmental improvements that will elevate the health status of these neighborhoods.
Read past newsletters addressing asthma, pesticides, mercury and air pollution
Brochure: Bisphenol-A (BPA) is Harmful to Our Children's Health
View the brochure (scroll to bottom of webpage)
Brochure: Protecting Your Children from Pesticides
View the brochure (scroll to bottom of webpage)
Richard Jackson - UCLA School of Public Health
Article: Can 'New Urbanism' Bring Health to Your Neighborhood by Rachel Pomerance, US News and World Report
Kim Knowlton - National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Factsheet: Climate Health Facts
Factsheet: Global Warming Preparedness Facts
Climate Maps: Serious Threats Where You Live and What To Do About Them
On the Climate Maps website you can zoom-in on climate change’s local effects on health for people of all ages, right in your backyard; and what you can do to reduce health risks. This site is also a gateway to other NRDC scientific research papers.
Leyla McCurdy - National Environmental Education Foundation
Environmental health resources for health care providers.
Children and Nature Initiative: promotes physical and mental well-being across generations through outdoor activity in nature.
Poster/Infographic: Children and Nature: Being active in natures makes kids healthier
View and download the poster
Peggy Shepard - WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Paper: Promoting Environmental Health Policy Through Community Based Participatory Research: A Case Study from Harlem, New York
Read the paper
Gordon Walker - Viable Futures Center
Viable Futures Center - Website
Age-Wave Community Planning - Website
David Wallinga - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Healthy Food Action - Website
Healthy Food Action makes it simple for health professionals to ACT. It provides both vital information, and a mechanism for action. By speaking out, health professionals can lend their unique, collective voice to public policy debates about food and farming - a voice to ensure that these policies are consistent with better health.
Peter Whitehouse - The Intergenerational School
A Model of Intergenerativity: How the Intergenerational School is Bringing the Generations Together to Foster Collective Wisdom and Community Health - Download the PDF
Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 2011
Daniel George, PhD and Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD
Deborah Kopald - EMR Policy Institute
EMR Policy Institute - Website
EMR Policy Institute - Archived videos
EMR Policy Institute - Facebook
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