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Dear Environmental Health Leaders
My name is Michelle Chuk and I am the Senior Advisor for Environmental Health at NACCHO. We are excited to announce our first Environmental Health Newsletter "The Greener Side of Local Public Health". This e-newsletter will be sent to you approximately every three weeks and will provide you with general environmental public health information as well as information regarding current projects of the NACCHO Environmental Health Team.This online resource will offer you updates regarding the tools and resources produced by NACCHO and partner organizations. In addition, the newsletter will give you the chance to share information about your health department's environmental health activities and learn about activities in other communities around the country.
At this point in time, the NACCHO staff has collected a list of environmental health directors, environmental health coordinators, and others that we think (or know) are working on environmental health in local health departments. However, our list is by no means comprehensive. If you would like to be REMOVED from the distribution list, please contact Nausheen Saeed at [email protected]. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you want to continue to receive "The Greener Side of Local Public Health". If you have colleagues in other health departments (or in your own), that you would like to share this newsletter with, please forward it along. If you are interested in being ADDED to the distribution list please click the link on the left-hand bar of the newsletter and submit your name to our database.
The NACCHO Environmental Health staff is always working to improve our capacity to provide local health departments and our partners with the tools and information needed to impact public health practice at the local level. If you have ideas for articles or updates that you would like to see included in the NACCHO's "The Greener Side of Local Public Health" please email them to Michelle Chuk at [email protected]. We are excited and proud of this new service and we look forward to working with you to make the newsletter beneficial for you.
Thank you for your interest,
Michelle Chuk and the NACCHO Environmental Health Team
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 Environmental Health Program Fact Sheet
NACCHO has released an updated Environmental Health Program fact sheet containing short summaries, a list of activities, and contact information for all of NACCHO's current Environmental Health projects.
For a free copy of the fact sheet, please visit the NACCHO Publications and Tools section of the NACCHO Web site at www.naccho.org/pubs/.
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Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events:
Understanding the Potential Contributions to the Emergence, Reemergence, and Spread of Infectious Disease.
NACCHO recognizes the responsibility of local public health to respond and cope with present and future climate change challenges. The Institute of Medicine will host a two day public workshop on December 4 -5, 2007,to discuss how climate change contributes to the burden of disease and death. This unique opportunity will bring together a wide range of stakeholders to share and engage participants in developing and implementing solutions.
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Healthy People,Healthy Environment
"Working to Improve Children's Health"
When was the last time your child rode his or her bike to the park? Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States as currently, one child in five is overweight. A recent article, in the American Public Health Association's (APHA) The Nation's Health takes an alternative approach to helping children maintain a healthy body weight. 'No Child Left Inside' is one group in a growing movement that is re-connecting children to nature. "If kids aren't bonding now with nature, then who in the world is going to care about it in 10 years?" says Richard Louv, author of the book on this subject.
To read this article,visit "The Nation's Health" link on APHA's Web site at www.apha.org.
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| For more detailed information on current and future NACCHO Environmental Health projects, please visit our Web site at www.naccho.org/topics/environmental/index.cfm
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The National Connection for Local Public Health
NACCHO is the national organization representing local health departments. NACCHO supports efforts that protect and improve the health of all people and all communities by promoting national policy, developing resources and programs, seeking health equity, and supporting effective local public health practice and systems.
National Association of County and City Health Officials
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