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2002 Lead-Safe Indiana Conference
Getting in the Information Loop:
Lead and Mold resources 2002
Joan Zivich, Medical Librarian
Community Hospital, Munster, IN 46321
I. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES:
Online resources from the Federal Government contain different types of information on childhood lead poisoning. National library of Medicine information addresses health and medical issues for parents and professionals. Environmental and HUD sites address air, ground, and housing resources. They provide how to information. Other sites provide resources for education and how to materials.
A. National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
a. Pub Med- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query
b. MedlinePlus - http://medlineplus.gov/
c. Information on clinical research studies - http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
B. Environmental Health Center; a Division of the National Safety Council. http://www.nsc.org/ehc/lead.htm
C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/lead/resources.htm
1. EPA Regional Office Lead Coordinators - http://www.epa.gov/lad/leadoff1.htm
2. Office of Children’s Health Protection - http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/homepage
3. Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance - http://www.epa.gov/compliance/
4. Office of Indoor Air Quality - http://epa.gov/iaq/lead.html
National Lead Information Center Hotline - 1-800-532-3394
Lead Clearinghouse - 1-800-424-5323
5. Office of Pesticide Programs - http://ww.pa.gov/oppfead1/cb/10_tips/
6. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response - http://www.epa.gov/swerrims/
7. Office of Water - http://www.epa.gov/safewter/lead/
8. Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program - http://www.epa.gov/tri
9. Environmental Health Center - http://www.nsc.org/ehc/nlic/ledepa.htm
D. National Lead Information Center - http://www.epa.gov/lead/nlic.htm
E. Office of Healthy homes and Lead Hazard Control - http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/index.cfm
F. U.S. Department of Education. ERIC (Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education Helping Parents Prevent Lead Poisoning - http://ericeece.org/pubs/digests/2002/binns02.html
G. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/lead.htm
H. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. - http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/CLPPP/default.htm
I. National Center for Healthy Housing - http://www.centerforhealthyhousing.org/
J. General Accounting Office. - http://www.healthlaw.org/pubs/Alert990127.html
K. U.S. Government Subscriptions Catalog - http://bookstore.gpo.gov/subscriptions/index.html and in hard copy at a government documents depository library. Full and partial depository sites in Indiana - http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/WWW/RL/FEDDOC.HTML
L. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - http://www.cpsc.gov/talk.html
M. Consumer Information Catalog or Federal Citizen Information Center - www.pueblo.gsa.gov. Once you place an order (items are range from free to $3.00 each) they will send you a mini-catalog.
N. Prevention Act. - http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/leadact.htm
O. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/lyh/govtdo.htm
P. National Indian Health Board - http://www.nihb.org/issue_epa.htm
II. ORGANIZATIONS and UNIVERSITIES:
These organizations and institutions provide information for advocates, legal issues, parental assistance and how to information. They are good educational resources and provide information and places for common information sharing.
A. Improving Kids’ Environment - http://www.ikecoalition.org
B. Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. - http://www.afhh.org/ Newsletter: Leadnotes
C. Center for Health Services Research and Policy. George Washington University, Washington, D.C. http://www.gwhealthpolicy.org/newsps/lead/
D. United Parents Against Lead - http://home.earthlink.net/~shabazzaupal/_wsn/page2.html
E. Texas A & M University. - http://cerh.tamu.edu/coep/Articles/LeadEn.htm
F. CEHN: Index of Children’s Environmental Health Issues Resource Guide on Children’s Environmental Health http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/leadpoisoningprevention.html
G. National Safety Council - http://www.nsc.org/
H. The Ohio State University. Nutrition and Childhood Lead Poisoning - http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5536.html
I. Environmental Defense - http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5536.html
J. Environmental Health Watch. Cleveland Ohio - http://www.ehw.org/Resources/RSRC_books1.htm
K. Public Welfare Foundation http://www.publicwelfare.org/publications/publications/lead_poisoning_overview.asp
III. EXAMPLES OF SITES FROM DIFFERENT STATES:
These resources are examples of what other states and organizations are doing to fight lead poisoning and prevention in their way. They provide good information and ideas.
A. Lead Prevention Coalition from St. Louis, Missouri - http://www.leadprevention.org/scripts/poison.cfm
B. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, California - http://www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/childlead/
C. Resource guide on Children’s Environmental Health, California.
http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/leadpoisoning.html
D. Environmental Health Watch, Cleveland Ohio - http://www.ehw.org/Lead/LEAD_home3.htm
E. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. Bureau of Environmental health Assessment, Massachusetts
http://www.state.ma.us/dph/clppp/clppp.htm
F. Coalition to end Childhood Lead Poisoning. Maryland - http://www.leadsafe.org/index.htm
G. Oregon Public Health Services. Lead Poisoning Prevention - http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/eoe/lead/candy.htm
H, North Carolina. The ERP NC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Site -
http://checc.sph.unc.edu/rooms/library/lead/index.htm
I. Lead Action Coalition. Massachusetts - http://www.tufts.edu/tie/LAC/links/index.html
J. National Network for health. New Jersey. Lead Poisoning and Nutrition - http://www.nnh.org/products/LeadPois.htm
K. Milwaukee Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program – Links.
http://www.ci.mil.wi.us/citygov/health/lead/links.htm
IV. NEW BOOKS:
These books are available on lead poisoning and may be borrowed from your local academic or public library, perhaps through interlibrary loan.
A. Lead and Public Health: the Dangers for Children by Erik Millstone - Washington, D.C., Taylor & Francis, 1997.
B. Lead is a Silent Hazard by Richard M. Stapleton. New York, Walker and Co., 1994.
C. Lead Poisoning: Exposure, Abatement, Regulation by Joseph J. Breen and Cindy R. Stroup, editors. Boca Raton, Lewis Publishers, 1995.
D. Lead Poisoning in Childhood by Siegfried M. Pueschel, James G. Linakis, Angel Anderson editors. Baltimore, P. Brookers, Pub. Co., 1996.
E. Old Paint: A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980. by Peter C. English. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2001.
F. Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children CDC. Atlanta, GA, The Centers, 1991.
V. HISTORICAL MATERIALS:
These materials define the history of lead and its effects. They are very good for historical
perspectives.
A. Robert A. Kehoe M.D. Archives, Medical Director of Ethyl Corporation 1925-1958. - 111 boxes of Dr. Kehoe’s papers available in the Cincinnati Medical Heritage Center, University of Cincinnati Medical Center
B. William F. Ashe, M.D. Robert Arthur Kehoe, MD Archives of Environmental Health. 1966, Vol. 13: 139-51.
C. C. Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/ 8,523 hits on lead poisoning. Dates of books and articles range from 741 to the present.
D. Medicine; an Illustrated History by Alert S. Lyons M.D. and R. Joseph Petrucelli, II. M.D., Abradale Press, New York, 1987.
E. Lead Poisoning in 1918 - http://www.webhart.net/lead/1918.htm