llegheny County Health Department

Steve Steingart

www.county.allegheny.pa.us

American Academy of Sanitarians (AAS)

Gary P. Noonan

www.sanitarians.org

Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs

Household water treatment with sodium hypochlorite at the point-of-use has been widely shown to improve microbiological quality of stored household water (Quick et al., 1999; Quick et al., 2002) and reduce diarrheal disease in developing countries (Arnold, 2007).

June 6-9, 2010: Albuquerque, New Mexico

2011: Columbus, Ohio (date to be determined)

NEHA AFFILIATE AND REGIONAL LISTINGS

Kentucky

February 16-18, 2010: "KY Association of Milk, Food, and Environmental Sanitarians," sponsored by KEYA, Louisville, KY. For more information, contact Heath Stone, email: davidh....]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Environmental+Law+Handbook.-a0215481024New Edition Now Available!

Environmental Law Handbook

(Twentieth Edition)

Thomas F.P. Sullivan, Editor Emeritus (2009)

The new edition of this handbook provides individuals across the country--professionals, professors, and students--with a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-read look at the 14 major environmental, health, and safety laws affecting U.S. businesses...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pool+Math%5bTM%5d+Workbook.-a0215481023Pool Math[TM] Workbook

National Swimming Pool Foundation (2007)

This workbook is designed for operators, service technicians, health officials, retail technicians, and renovators who need to perform common math. The workbook helps people calculate pool surface area, water volume, chemical dosage amounts, saturation index, filter surface area, flow rate, filter flow rate capacity,...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Certified+Pool-Spa+Inspector%5bTM%5d+Training+Program.-a0215481022Certified Pool-Spa Inspector[TM] Training Program

National Swimming Pool Foundation (2005)

The interactive, user-friendly CD is an economical program, produced with input from CDC, that provides consistent training for swimming pool and spa inspections routinely performed by environmental health practitioners, health officials, health inspectors, and pool operators. At the...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pool+%26+Spa+Operator%5bTM%5d+Handbook.-a0215481021Pool & Spa Operator[TM] Handbook

(2009 Edition)

National Swimming Pool Foundation (2009)

This reference is a must for professionals who help protect those who use aquatic venues. It is the most current and comprehensive in the field. The Handbook features valuable information to help understand and prevent drowning, recreational water illness, suction entrapment,...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/JEH+quiz.-a0215481020Quiz deadline: April 1, 2010

1. The proportion of Staphylococcus infections that are resistant to methicillin has increased

a. from 0.3% in 1974 to 22% in 2004.

b. from 2% in 1995 to 22% in 2004.

c. from 2% in 1974 to 63% in 2004.

By volume, sediment from erosion is the largest source of pollution in the Great Lakes. Erosion can also carry off good top soil. It can increase flooding and damage to plant and animal life, and it can cause structural damage to buildings and roads. (See photo at right.)

In Massachusetts, the public health delivery system is mainly decentralized with 351 municipalities providing a large array of environmental and public health services through their local health agencies (boards of health or health departments). In many other states these services are delivered at the county or state agency levels, but in Massachusetts they are provided by...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hospital+emergency+department+visits+for+carbon+monoxide+poisoning...-a0215481014Introduction

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that every year, approximately 15,000 emergency department (ED) visits and 475 deaths result from unintentional non-fire-related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2005a, 2007). CO is undetectable to the senses and causes more fatal poisonings than any other toxicant...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Metal+concentrations+in+blood+and+hair+in+pregnant+females+in...-a0215481013Introduction

The risk that mercury (Hg), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) exposure during pregnancy will lead to adverse childhood outcomes is modulated by, e.g., hereditary factors, diet, nutritional status, and alcohol and tobacco intake.

Mercury

One of the well-documented air pollution problems associated with intense anthropogenic activities is the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. At present, many studies have established the relationship between convergence and UHI. For example, a stronger convergence is due to stronger heat island intensities, which are in turn associated with anthropogenic heat flux (Khan...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Nitrate+and+nitrite+levels+of+potable+water+supply+in+Warri%2c+Nigeria%3a...-a0215481011Introduction

Nitrate in drinking water has long been considered a health threat for its ability to induce methemoglobinemia, and this health outcome is the basis of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA's) maximum contaminant level (Bruning-Fann & Kaneene, 1993). Groundwater underlying agricultural areas often has elevated nitrate levels due to runoff of nitrogen...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Exposure+to+video+display+terminals+and+risk+of...-a0215481010Introduction

In view of the increasing use of video display terminals (VDTs) for work or pleasure, the potential relation between VDT use and pregnancy outcome has been a topic since the mid-1980s.

Some studies on animals and human cells have suggested that exposure to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) results in reproductive failure (Adey, 1981; Nielsen &...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+pilot+survey+of+in-service+home+arsenic+tracked+in+from+chromated...-a0215481009Introduction

According to the National Research Council Subcommittee on Arsenic in Drinking Water, a wide variety of adverse health effects, including skin, lung, and urinary bladder cancers and cardiovascular and neurological effects, have been attributed to chronic arsenic exposure, primarily from drinking water (National Research Council [NRC], 2001; World Health Organization,...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Prevalence+of+community-associated+Methicillin-resistant...-a0215481008Introduction

Each year, approximately 12 million Americans visit a physician to be examined for Staphylococcus aureus or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2008). MRSA infections total approximately two million annually, resulting in approximately 90,000 deaths and $4.5 billion in health care costs annually. In...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Assessment+of+athletic+health+care+facility+surfaces+for+MRSA+in+the...-a0215481007Introduction

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is becoming more prevalent in health care settings, and MRSA has recently emerged as a growing issue and challenge for allied health care providers (Beam & Buckley, 2006). Once primarily the concern of infection control practitioners, MRSA is poised to become a major issue for athletic trainers, sanitarians, and public...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Errata.-a0215481006Editor's Note: The answers printed in the December 2009 Journal for Quiz #1 (July/August 2009) were incorrect. The correct answers are below. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

1. a 2. a 3. a 4. a 5. e 6. a 7. a 8. d 9. e 10. a 11. c 12. a

The Honorable Barack Obama

President of the United States

The White House

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

On behalf of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and the thousands of local environmental health professionals that we represent, I want to take this opportunity to contact you on a matter of urgent concern for...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Environmental+health+and+public+health+are+important+to+health+care...-a0215481004As I write this column, throughout the country there is much debate on health care reform. Members of both houses of Congress (Senators and House Representatives), pundits, individuals representing special interest factions, news reporters, and U.S. citizens in general are debating the merits (pros and cons) of how health care should or could be provided and paid for in the United States. The...]]>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+meaning+behind+the+upcoming+new+look+to+the+journal.-a0213529619Starting with the January-February issue of the Journal of Environmental Health, you will see the material in the Journal both organized and presented a different way. I will use my column this month to explain why we are making this change. More important than the explanation, however, is how we hope this change will impact you. We are making this change for two explicit reasons.

Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff (2008)

JUST ADDED! In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, this book is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that...]]>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Epidemiology%3a+Concepts+and+Methods.-a0213529617Epidemiology: Concepts and Methods

William A. Oleckno (2008)

NEW! Written by a NEHA Member! Comprehensive in its coverage and suitable for graduate students, upper-division undergraduate students, and professionals in a wide range of health-related disciplines, this new text is a full-scale, pedagogically rich introduction to fundamental ideas and procedures in epidemiology. It...]]>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Prevention+of+Bug+Bites%2c+Stings%2c+and+Disease.-a0213529616Prevention of Bug Bites, Stings, and Disease

Daniel Strickman, Stephan P. Frances, and Mustapha Debboun (2009)

NEW! Here is all the information you will ever need--no matter where you are--to identify, avoid, and protect yourself against all manner of blood-sucking or venomous arthropods. Topics covered range from scorpions, spiders, ants, and bees to mites, ticks, lice, bedbugs,...]]>