Recently, issues related to the interactions between the environment and health, specifically reproductive health, have been getting attention in the media as well as in scientific and medical literature. As a result, your patients may have more concerns and will turn to you for information and guidance about these issues. The organizations and Web sites listed below provide information that will be helpful to clinicians interested in gaining a better understanding of environmental reproductive health. They discuss interactions between environmental factors and reproductive health and suggested ways of limiting exposure to environmental factors of concern.
Comprehensive Information Sources
Clean Production Action
www.cleanproduction.org
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
www.healthandenvironment.org
Commonweal
www.commonweal.org
Environmental Working Group
www.ewg.org
Green Seal
www.greenseal.org
Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy
www.iatp.org
Natural Resources Defense Council
www.nrdc.org
Silent Spring Institute
www.silentspring.org
Union of Concerned Scientists
www.ucsusa.org
Women’s Health and Environment Initiative
www.womenshealthandenvironment.org
Women’s Health and Environment Network
www.when.org
Women’s Voices for the Earth
www.womenandenvironment.org
Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote
www.wvwv.org
Environmental Rights, Justice, and Law
Center for Health, Environment & Justice
www.chej.org
Earthjustice
www.earthjustice.org
Local, State, and Federal Resources
The Alliance for a Healthy Maine
www.preventharm.org
Environment California
www.environmentcalifornia.org
National Agricultural Safety Database
www.cdc.gov/nasd
Toxic Free Legacy Coalition
www.toxicfreelegacy.org
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov
Washington Toxics Coalition
www.watoxics.org
West Harlem Environmental Action
www.weact.org
Resources for Clinicians
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
www.acoem.org
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
www.arhp.org
Breast Cancer Fund
www.breastcancerfund.org
Critical Windows of Development
www.endocrinedisruption.com
EnviRN
www.envirn.umaryland.edu
Health Care Without Harm
www.noharm.org
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
www.psr.org
Planned Parenthood® Federation of America
www.plannedparenthood.org
Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
www.ucsf.edu/coe/prhe.html
Reproductive Health Technologies Project
www.rhtp.org
ReproTox
www.reprotox.org
Patient Handout on Environmental and Reproductive Health
Health Matters: The Connection Between Your Health and the Environment
www.arhp.org
Specific Environmental Concerns
- Building
- Healthy Building Network
www.healthybuilding.net
- Healthy Building Network
- Children’s Health
- Children’s Health and Environment Coalition
www.checnet.org - The Green Schools Initiative
www.greenschools.net - Healthy Child/Healthy World
www.healthychild.org - Healthy School Environments
http://epa.gov/schools/index.html - Healthy Schools Network, Inc.
www.healthyschools.org
- Children’s Health and Environment Coalition
- Food
- The Eat Well Guide
www.eatwellguide.org
- The Eat Well Guide
- Personal Care Products
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
www.SafeCosmetics.org - Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database
http://cosmeticsdatabase.com
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
- Pesticides
- Beyond Pesticides
www.beyondpesticides.org - EPA’s Pesticides Information
www.epa.gov/pesticides - National Pesticide Information Center
http://npic.orst.edu - Pesticide Action Network
www.panna.org - Pesticide Education Project
www.PestEd.org
- Beyond Pesticides
- Plastics
- PVC: The Poison Plastic Campaign
www.pvcfree.org
- PVC: The Poison Plastic Campaign
ARHP Resources
Reproductive Health and the Environment topic area
www.arhp.org
- Clinician Resources
- Clinical Proceedings: Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health
www.arhp.org - Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health program page
www.arhp.org - Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Fish Consumption to Promote Good Health and Minimize Contaminants
www.arhp.org
- Clinical Proceedings: Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health
- Patient Resources
- Health Matters – The Connection Between Your Health and the Environment: Tips and Tools for Health and Home
www.arhp.org
- Health Matters – The Connection Between Your Health and the Environment: Tips and Tools for Health and Home
About Audrey Kelly, PharmD