Environmental Health Nursing Publications
Using a site visit to a contaminated location as a focus for environmental health education for academic and public health nurses
Public Health Nursing. 2006 September; 23(5).
NEW Bisphenol A: A Precautionary Approach [AAOHN subscription required]
AAOHN Journal. 2010 April; 58(4)
NEW Communicating Methylmercury Risks and Fish Consumption Benefits to Vulnerable Childbearing Populations
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing. 2010 January; 39(1).
NEW Environmental Health for Childbearing Women and Their Families
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing. 2010 January; 39(1).
NEW The Impact of Environmental and Occupational Exposures on Reproductive Health
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing. 2010 January; 39(1).
NEW Pesticides and Health Risks
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing. 2010 January; 39(1).
Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging
This joint publication from Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and Science and Environmental Health Network primarily examines the lifetime influences of environmental factors on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and their underlying pathologic mechanisms. A close look at the science of these diseases shows they are related to a number of features of modern society and that Alzheimer’s disease especially is linked to other serious health problems of modern times, which we call the "western disease cluster."
Addressing Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: A Guide for Primary Care Providers in Massachusetts (PDF)
This manual was developed to assist primary care providers to understand and help prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. The materials are intended to raise awareness of common hazards in the occupational setting and their potential health effects, and to help providers refer patients to sources of support for addressing underlying causes of injury and disease. Topics included in this manual were selected by focus groups of Boston-area primary care providers, occupational health specialists, injured workers, and union leaders. These groups identified issues of particular concern to their work and constituencies. Thus, the guide is not meant to be a comprehensive resource, but rather an introduction to problems commonly seen among primary care patients, especially low-wage and immigrant workers, in Eastern Massachusetts.
Public Health Nursing September/October 2006 - Vol. 23 Issue 5 Page 377-483
This issue in Public Health Nursing contains a special feature on environmental health nursing education. Articles include:
- Fostering the Relationship Between Environmental Health and Nursing
- Using a Site Visit to a Contaminated Location as a Focus for Environmental Health Education for Academic and Public Health Nurses
- Open the Door Whenever Opportunity Knocks
- Incorporating a Built Environment Module into an Accelerated Second-Degree Community Health Nursing Course
- Challenges and Successes of Infusing Environmental Health Content in a Nursing Program
- Does Dixon's Integrative Environmental Health Model Inform an Understanding of Rural Parents' Perceptions of Local Environmental Health Risks?
Plastics: From Miracle to Menace?
Harvard Public Health NOW. 2005 November; 105(11)
Tainted water on tap: What to tell patients about preventing illness from drinking water
The American Journal of Nursing. 2008 December 12.
Environmental health: An opportunity for health promotion and disease prevention.
AAOHN. 2005; 53(1)
Incorporating environmental health into pediatric medical and nursing education
Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004 December; 112(17)
Environmental exposure assessment, pollution sources, and exposure agents: a primer for pediatric nursing professionals.
Pediatric Nursing. 2007 Mar-Apr;33(2):179-82.
Contamination: Nursing diagnoses with outcome and intervention linkages
International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications.2007 April; 18(2); Page 37-44
Who says it's not easy being green? Nurses and health care leaders promote healing, environmentally friendly facilities.
The American Nurse. 2007 Mar-Apr;39(2):1, 8-9.
Heat-related illnesses: the role of the occupational and environmental health nurse.
AAOHN J. 2007 Jul;55(7):279-87; quiz 288-9.
Environmental justice: implications for occupational health nurses.
AAOHN J. 2006 Nov;54(11):489-96; quiz 497-8.
Competencies in occupational and environmental health nursing.
AAOHN J. 2007 Nov;55(11):442-7.
Using a wiki in nursing education and research.
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 2009 Mar;6(1): Article 6.
Blood mercury concentrations in CHARGE study children with and without autism.
Environmental Health Perspectives, in press.