Health Care Without Harm
January 29, 2013 | Grantee
Evaluating the impact of green initiatives on patient and worker health.
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January 29, 2013 | Grantee
Evaluating the impact of green initiatives on patient and worker health.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
April 2, 2013 | Story
A grantee’s new book looks at the possible effects of the new focus on gene-environment interaction in population health.
June 28, 2012 | Journal Article
This paper examines how emotional reactions about climate change differ depending on whether audiences perceive the issue as an environmental problem, a public health problem, or as a matter of national security.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: Tulare Count, Calif., residents monitored the air at homes situated near orange groves where the pesticide chlorpyrifos had been used. In addition, urine samples from 34 participants were analyzed for chlorpyrifos metabolite.
August 14, 2012 | Story
Study tests possible 'frames' for making the case for action on greenhouse gas emissions.
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Health is vulnerable to major shifts in energy prices.
April 20, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The Environmental Protection Agency is inviting people to write six-word “micro essays” about Earth in observance of Earth Day this Sunday. Many of the micro-essays will be featured on the EPA home page and on the EPA’s social media channel. EPA Adm ...
April 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The Department of the Interior has released the "Environmental Justice Strategic Plan 2012-2017." The plan sets forth goals, strategies and measures to help the Interior Department work more effectively with disadvantaged communities to reduce envir ...
March 29, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Do couches need a pound of flame retardant that may pose its own health risk? A recent presentation at the Harvard School of Public Health looked at flame retardants, found in some household goods, that have been linked in some studies to cancer, fe ...