In occupational and environmental health research, individual, group and community research participants have a unique and vested interest in the research findings. The ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence are helpful in considering the ethical issues in the disclosure of research findings in occupational and environmental health research. Researchers need to include ...

Communities report a low level of trust in environmental health media coverage. In order to support risk communication objectives, the goals of the research study were to identify whether or not there is a gap in environmental reporting training for journalists, to outline journalists' methods for gathering environmental health news, to observe journalists' attitudes toward environmental health...

Arctic indigenous peoples face significant challenges resulting from the contamination of Arctic air, water, and soil by persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, and radionuclides. International cooperative efforts among governments and research institutions are under way to collect the information needed by environmental health scientists and public health officials to address environmenta...

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

The Russian Federation has made an intensive effort to compile and use information on the environment and human health. In 1996-1997, we evaluated the information that was collected and analyzed on the local (raion), regional (oblast), and federal levels with reference to its usefulness in the assessment of environmental health effects. The Russian Federation maintains standardized nationwide i...

I am pleased to present " our " new strategic plan for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS 2012). I say that it's " our " plan because the entire document reflects tremendous thought, discussion, and sharing of ideas by hundreds of scientists and community stake holders, and it speaks to the entire field of environmental health research. This plan is about what we wil...

A 125 Formulating health policy without a thorough understanding of the implications of the environment's influence on health can be compared to building an airplane without an understanding of basic physics: though it may appear to have all the appropriate parts in the appropriate places, without the underlying engineering required for flight, it will never get off the ground. Or worse, it wil...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) released the report “Advancing Environmental Justice” to summarize and communicate the outcomes from its efforts to address environmental justice over the last two decades. The report describes the various research programs, scientific conferences, and public health interventions NIEHS has supported that are aimed at reducing envir...

This NIEHS-sponsored workshop highlighted the advances in environmental health research being made by using marine and freshwater model systems to add greater definition to the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease. Workshop participants considered human health problems, features of marine and freshwater models that facilitate studies of these problems, and obstacles to taking f...

The health care industry is a major contributor to environmental pollution. Through the processes of waste disposal, including incineration, the health care industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental dioxin and mercury. Mercury contamination of our waterways has created the conditions by which a significant number of fish are sufficiently mercury-laden so as to pose a human he...