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Environmental HealthNational & Global SecuritySocial JusticeViolence Prevention

Environmental Health

CLIMATE

“Information from Your Doctor: Global Warming and Your Health”
American Academy of Family Physicians, August 2011

“Doctors Prepare Their Professions to Explain and Treat Climate-Related Symptoms”
New York Times, June 15, 2011

“Climate Change and Human Health, The Role of Nurses in Confronting the Issue”
Nursing Administration Quarterly, Fall 2010

“Healthy Hospitals Healthy Planet Healthy People, Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings”
World Health Organization, Health Care Without Harm

Addressing Climate Change in the Health Care Setting: Opportunities for Action
Health Care without Harm with SF Bay PSR, 2008


FOOD

“Doctors Take Aim At Antibiotic Resistance From Factory Farming”
Huffington Post, August 16, 2011

“Reproductive Health and The Industrialized Food System: A Point of Intervention For Health Policy”
Health Affairs Journal, May 2011

“Balanced Menus Challenge 2011”

“Food Matters, What to Eat”

Balanced Menus: A Pilot Evaluation of Implementation in Four San Francisco Bay Area Hospitals
Or download only the Executive Summary
Lisa Lagasse, MHS, and Roni Neff, PhD, MS, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future, April 2010

Implementing Local and Sustainable Food Programs in California Hospitals
SF Bay PSR and Community Alliance with Family Farmers, 2009

Balanced Menus Program Brochure
SF Bay PSR, 2009

Menu of Change: Healthy Food in Healthcare. A Survey of Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge Hospitals
Health Care without Harm with SF Bay PSR, 2008


CHEMICALS

“Antibacterial Chemical Raises Safety Issues
New York Times, August 19, 2011

Creating a Healthy Environment for Your Child's Development
Cómo ayudar a crear un ambiente sano para su niño
Greater Boston PSR, 2002

Why Breast-Feeding is Still Best for Baby
Por qué el amamantamiento sigue siendo mejor para los bebés
Greater Boston PSR, 2002

Out of Harm's Way Health Care Provider Fact Sheet
Greater Boston PSR, 2001

In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and Clean Water Fund, 2001

Pesticides and Human Health: A Resource for Health Care Professionals
Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, 2000

Generations at Risk: How Environmental Toxicants May Affect Reproductive Health in California
Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, Jonathan Kaplan, MES, Maria Valenti, Paul Burns, JD, Annette Huddle, MES, 1995


National and Global Security

Addressing Climate Change in the Health Care Setting, Opportunites for Action.
Health Care without Harm with SF Bay PSR, 2008


San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility Comments to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Regarding DOE's Proposed Plan for Addressing Radioactive and Toxic Soil and Groundwater at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300.
April 4, 2006

Degrees of Danger: How Smarter Energy Can Protect Our Health in California
by Evans N., PSR National, 2003

Report on Tritium Accidents at LLNL: A Critical Review of ATSDR Public Health Assessment for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
by Abel Russ and Robert Goble, March 28, 2003

Report on Tritium Accidents at LLNL: Evaluation of ATSDR’s LLNL Public Health Assessment
by Steve Wing, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Heath, University of North Carolina, May 24, 2002

Proposed Process to Address the Historic Distribution of Sewage Sludge Containing Plutonium Released from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
by California Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, 2002


Social Justice

Violence Prevention


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