Environmental Health and Medicine Education

Introduction

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATDSR) offers environmental health and medicine education products for health professionals, community members, and interested members of the public. These materials are designed to increase awareness and knowledge of how the environment impacts human health. Tools are provided to promote positive health aspects and prevent and/or minimize adverse health impacts of the environment. These materials are developed to meet specific audience needs, are free of charge, and are based on the latest evidence based science and medicine.

Resources for Health Professionals

ATSDR's newly developed or revised environmental medicine education products present current environmental medicine content drawn from peer-reviewed medical literature. These products are accredited for free continuing education.

Resources for the Public

ATSDR provides community members, health educators, health care providers, and other health professionals with community environmental health education products to increase environmental health literacy. These products include information about specific types of exposures to hazardous substances, exposure routes and pathways, health effects, treatment options, and how to prevent or minimize exposures to hazardous substances in the environment.

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU)

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) are academically based, typically at university medical center, and are located across the United States, Canada and Mexico. They form a network that is capable of responding to requests for information on reproductive and children's environmental health throughout North America. The PEHSU offer advice on prevention, diagnosis, management, and treatment of environmentally-related health effects in children and couples of reproductive age.