NCEH/ATSDR – Top 10 “Your Health, Your Environment” Blog Posts of 2015

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As this year draws to a close, perhaps you’ve realized you didn’t get a chance to read all of the “Your Health, Your Environment” blog posts. To help you get caught up, here are the ten most popular posts of 2015:
Step It Up! Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities

  1. Some of the Biggest Problems Sometimes Have the Simplest Solutions

Some of the Biggest Problems Sometimes Have the Simplest Solutions In environmental public health, we often get caught up in looking for complex answers to complex problems. Sometimes we get lucky, though, and a simple solution will serve. The U.S. Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities proves this point. Read More >

 


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  1. New CDC Document Offers Emergency Managers Guidance for Identifying and Engaging At-Risk Groups

When preparing for an emergency, responders aim to be able to reach every person in a community. Emergency managers must be able to quickly get information to all community members- even the hardest to reach. Emergency managers need to know in advance which groups are at greatest risk of harm during an emergency, where the Read More >

 


Uranium awareness poster for the Shiprock Area; one of 9 versions of the poster.

  1. Uranium Awareness Training Course Empowers over 90 Navajo Community Health Representatives

How much do you know about uranium? Do you know that it is naturally present in nearly all rocks, soils, and air? Or that nearly everyone is exposed to low amounts of uranium in food and water? For much of the U.S. population, uranium exposure stays at these low levels. But in the 1940s, federal Read More >

 


Photo courtesy of Dr. Kuklenyik.

  1. All Scientists are Artists at Heart

Meet Dr. Zsuzsanna (Susan) Kuklenyik, Senior Research Scientist and Analytical Chemist, Clinical Chemistry Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC. Read More >

 


  1. ATSDR at Work: Camp Lejeune, NC, Part 1

This is the First in a Series of Three Posts What’s in the Water? You’re out working in your yard on a steamy summer day when you realize you need a break. You run inside to pour yourself a tall glass of ice water. But do you stop to test it before you drink it? Read More >

 


ATSDR holds public information session

  1. ATSDR at Work: Camp Lejeune, NC, Part 3

Third in a Series of Three Posts Working with the Community: Camp Lejeune Community Assistance Panel What are Community Assistance Panels? If you don’t know much about the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), you may not realize that it is one of the federal agencies that recognize the importance of community and Read More >

 


ATSDR Public Health Activities at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

  1. ATSDR at Work: Camp Lejeune, NC, Part 2

Second in a Series of Three Posts ATSDR Gathers Information about Health When they learned that drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune had been contaminated from the 1940s to the 1980s, many people who lived or worked there in those years became concerned about their health. ATSDR has completed four studies to learn Read More >

 


children playing in a park

  1. Protecting Kids from Environmental Exposure

What do these scenarios have in common? You’re renovating an older home. While you’re sanding window frames, some paint chips fall on the floor. Your toddler puts them in his mouth. You enjoy gardening and use pesticides to protect your plants from insects. You’ve just learned that you’re pregnant and wonder if pesticide exposure could Read More >

 


Developmental Disabilities

  1. Tracking Developmental Disabilities and the Environment

On the first Monday in October, celebrate National Child Health Day – which the President of the United States has proclaimed every year since 1928. NCEH’s Environmental Health Tracking Branch provides valuable data on children’s health by tracking developmental disabilities and other children’s environmental health issues. Read More >

 


CO Monitor

  1. Prevent Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning

Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, November 1, 2015. As you prepare to set your clocks back one hour, remember to check the batteries in your carbon monoxide (CO) detector. If you don’t have a battery-operated or battery back-up CO detector, now is a great time to buy one. At least 430 people die each year Read More >

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