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Web Sites for
Is Your House Killing You?
The Healthy Home
What's under
your
kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in
your
laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential
health effects, and
about safety and
handling.
A Healthy Environment
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Health, Environment,
& Work
http://agius.com/hew/index.htm
Educational resources, PAQs, and
links to relating to
Occupational & Environmental Health and Medicine by Raymond Agius,
University of Manchester.
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Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site
www.scorecard.org
Find environmental information
about your community: learn
how bad the pollution is, where the toxic chemicals come from, and what the health risks are.
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Tox
Town
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/
Environmental health concerns and
toxic chemicals where you
live, work, and play.
Databases on Toxicology, hazardous
chemical, environmental
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals,
environmental
health, and toxic releases.
Includes:
Comprehensive,
peer-reviewed
toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals.
Explore
on-site
toxic releases and hazardous waste sites from the EPA's Toxics
Release
Inventory (TRI) and the Superfund National
Priorities
List (NPL).
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Finding and Evaluating Health
Information
For web sites found using a search engine such as Google,
it is vital that you carefully evaluate what you find for quality. Here
are links to help
you know how to find the best health informaiton.
- A User's
Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
The
Medical Library Association created this guide
to finding quality, safe and up to date health information on the
Internet. The "Getting Started"
section includes tips on using quality
electronic finding tools developed by the U.S. government. The
guidelines section was developed to help you evaluate the content of
health-related websites.
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Health Science Site in Peoria presents Living Healthy
as part of the Swain Endowed Lectureship and with Federal funds from
the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No.
NO1-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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