might think dedication of EHP to the service of environmental health around the world is a broad but insubstantial goal. However, from the first issue of the revised EHP—published on Earth Day, 22 April 1993—to today, we have worked diligently to make that goal a reality and, to that end, many educational and research institutions in developing countries have for the last eight years received t...

South Africans face a range of preventable environmental hazards to their health, many of which are rooted in the country's colonial and apartheid past, and ongoing poverty and inequality. Since the advent of democracy in the country, government has made considerable progress in improving living conditions and in developing the legal framework to prevent and manage environmental contamination. ...

This paper attempts to place the programs of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences into correct perspective in relation to the other Federal environmental programs. Its goal is to illuminate the field of environmental health as a new field in science that confronts a wide variety of complex and diverse issues. It is unrealistic to believe these issues can somehow be rendered l...

PURPOSE This study explores how diverse attitudes about health literacy are assessed by medical librarians and other health care professionals. PROCEDURES An online survey of thirty-six items was conducted using Q methodology in two phases in spring 2005 and winter 2006. Respondents (n = 51) were nonrandomly self-selected from a convenience sample of members of the Medical Library Association...

The subject of technical cooperation between developing countries has attracted growing attention in recent years. The account presented here summarizes PAHO's efforts to promote such cooperation in the field of environmental health.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The authors focus on community and partnership capacity ...

The case for inquiry-based, hands-on, meaningful science education continues to gain credence as an effective and appropriate pedagogical approach (Karukstis 2005; NSF 2000). An innovative community-based framework for science learning, hereinafter referred to as the Big Sky Model, successfully addresses these educational aims, guiding high school and tribal college students from rural areas of...