ICEH logo INSTITUTE for CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
photo of a man and child photo of children coloring a map photo of an adult's and child's hand photo of a mother and baby photo of children on a playground photo of Raffi and a baby

Working for a Healthy, Just and Sustainable Future
for ALL Children

Resources: Documents

See also these resources on this website:

  • Our searchable list of resources, including books, videos, magazines, consumer guides and websites for researchers, parents, health care providers, lawmakers, consumers and others.
  • Our Websites page for a listing of websites related to environmental health.
  • Our searchable Biweekly Bulletins with top news stories and announcements since January 2006.
  • Our Presentations page with handouts from lectures and conferences that we have sponsored.

Acrobat Reader iconDocuments on this page require Acrobat Reader software. Please see the Adobe website to download this free software if a file does not open when you click on a link. See our instructions for downloading this software if you need assistance.

ICEH-published Documents

ICEH grants permission to reprint documents that we have published as long as ICEH is credited as the author. We appreciate knowing if our materials are having an impact; please let us know if you use our materials: iceh@iceh.org.

Document

Purpose and File Size

Children's Environmental Health Basics

General Information
20 KB

Children's Environmental Health Fact Sheet

General Information
320 KB

Health and Environmental Contaminants in Washington State: What We Know and What We Need to Know, from the CHE-Washington website

General Information
92 KB

LDDI Analysis – CDC Biomonitoring 2005 Summary

Document Summary, 41 KB

LDDI Analysis – CDC Biomonitoring 2003 Summary

Document Summary, 64 KB

LDDI's Mental Health Fact Sheet synthesizes some of the emerging research on environmental exposures and psychological disorders.

Mental Health Information
150 KB

List of Experts on Environmental Health for Reporters (local and national)

Information for Media
12 KB

Top Ten Things You Can Do

General Information
104 KB

Documents from Other Organizations

Document

File Size

Chemical Kids – Environmental Toxins and Child Development (from the March/April 2007 issue of Social Work Today)

CHE Public Policy Primer: Our Health and the Health of the Environment: How Are They Connected? What Can We Do to Improve Both? (on the CHE website)

1 MB

Environmental Toxins and Human Health, by ICEH Advisory Board member Antonia Marthaller, RN, published in the Whidbey General Hospital quarterly magazine, The Pulse.

15 KB

Global Initiative on Children's Environmental Health Indicators (CEHI) from the World Health Organization

101 KB

LDDI Analysis – CDC Biomonitoring 2003 Brief

24 KB

The Louisville Charter: A Platform for Creating a Safe and Healthy Environment through Innovation

24 KB

Playing it Safe: Service Provider Strategies to Reduce Environmental Risks to Preconception, Prenatal and Child Health (on the Best Start website)

Pollution in People report from the Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition website

Public Health and Economic Consequences of Methylmercury Toxicity to the Developing Brain by Leonardo Trasande, Philip J. Landrigan and Clyde Schechter, on the Environmental Health Perspectives website

30 KB

Press Release: CDC Releases Extensive Survey of Americans’ Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (for the full report or a summary, please visit www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/)

30 KB

Toxic Trespass (on the ourplanet.com website)

Transforming the Public Debate on Neurotoxicants: The Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, written by ICEH Executive Director Elise Miller, published in the April 2004 issue of San Francisco Medicine, on the SF Medical Society website

What You Should Know about Arsenic-treated Wood from the Safe Playgrounds Project website.

Why so many students in special education? (PDF file) by Kathleen Schuler of LDDI member organization Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Published September 7, 2004, in the Southwest Journal of Minneapolis.

9 KB

Magazine Subscription

You can subscribe to The Green Guide through the link here. ICEH will receive a small portion of your subscription fee.

Practice Prevention Columns

With an emphasis on the effects of neurotoxicants and environmental hazards on the developing human brain, these columns summarize recent scientific research for a nonscientific audience. These also serve as resources for the Collaborative on Health and the Environment's Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, which ICEH coordinates nationally. Please feel free to link to these articles or include them in your own newsletters or other publications.

Topic

File Size

Updated

Children's Environmental Health Overview of neurotoxicants
and children's greater
susceptibility

55 KB

January 2007

Arsenic

42 KB

February 2007

Baby Care Products

109 KB

January 2007

Lead

69 KB

December 2007

Lindane

45 KB

January 2007

Mercury

186 KB

September 2006

Mold

40 KB

March 2004

PBDEs

182 KB

July 2006

PCBs

189 KB

October 2006

Perchlorate

41 KB

February 2007

Pesticides

187 KB

September 2006

Plastics

73 KB

September 2007

Solvents

12 KB

January 2004

Television

12 KB

July 2004

Thyroid

40 KB

May 2005

Thyroid Fact Sheet

1364 KB

November 2005

En español: La práctica de la prevención

Reports

Healthy Schools Initiative Reports

Document

File Size

Notes of the Washington State Roundtable

32 KB

Notes of the Oregon State Roundtable

32 KB

Healthy Schools Task Force Final Report

120 KB

Healthy Futures Project Documents

Document

File Size

Overview of the Healthy Futures Project

24 KB

Children's Environmental Health Fact Sheet

12 KB

Programs for Youth in Environmental Health

20 KB

Research Topics

24 KB

Tox-In-A-Box Order Form

60 KB

Articles of Interest

12 KB

Meeting Documents

Please see our LDDI Meetings page for links to documents.

Precautionary Principle Documents

Document

File Size

Health Indicators Letter

16 KB

Recommendation Update

16 KB

Seattle White Paper

80 KB

Application to Seattle

28 KB

Application to King County

96 KB

European Environment Agency News Release, January 2002

112 KB

The Precautionary Principle: Public Health, Protection of Children and Sustainability (on the World Health Organization website)

736 KB

The Precautionary Principle in a Nutshell (BE SAFE Precautionary Policy Clearinghouse)

DonateNow