Web sites with information about the relationship between the environment and human health in Kentucky and the nation.

Kentucky Children's Environmental Health Working Group - The Kentucky Children's Environmental Health Working Group was established in March 2001 as part of a special outreach project funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IV Children's Environmental Health Program.

American Lung Association of Kentucky - The American Lung Association is the only nonprofit charitable health organization dedicated solely to lung health issues.  In Kentucky, there are two priority program areas - asthma and tobacco control.

Online Health Resources - A comprehensive directory of health-related Web sites.

Allies Against Asthma - Allies Against Asthma is a national initiative to improve asthma control for children and adolescents, conducted under a cooperative agreement with the Indoor Environments Division of the EPA.

Children's Environmental Health Network - A national multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.

U.S. EPA Office of Children's Health Protection - Public involvement is key to protecting human health and the environment. Citizens and communities need to have information and tools that enable them to take steps toward protecting their children from environmental health threats. Organizations, industry and government entities at all levels also need information to help them take child-protective actions. Providing basic information is a key focus of OCHP.

U.S. EPA Office of Healthy School Environments - The Healthy School Environments Web pages are intended to serve as a gateway to online resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools.

National Children's Study - The National Children’s Study will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21.

Environment and Human Health, Inc. - A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to protecting human health from environmental harms through research, education and the promotion of sound public policy. Environment and Human Health, Inc. is made up of doctors, public health professionals and policy experts committed to the reduction of environmental health risks to individuals.

World Health Organization - Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations.

USGS Environment and Human Health - Many chronic health issues may relate directly to Earth processes and the environment. As the nation's natural resource science agency, the USGS can play a significant role in understanding environmental contributions to diseases and human health. By knowing the geographic conditions (hydrology, soils, vegetation) necessary for the maintenance of specific pathogens in nature, one can use the landscape to identify the spatial and temporal distribution of disease and use land characteristics and bioclimatic thresholds to map habitats of pathogenic agents and animal hosts.