This program is a 90-minute VHS videotape of the March 21, 2002 satellite broadcast from the National Library of Medicine, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The program demonstrates selected online resources in the context of important children's environmental health issues. Topics include pesticide exposure, environmental triggers of asthma, and lead poisoning prevention funding resources. The goal of the program is to increase the knowledge of public health professionals to locate and evaluate electronic information resources on children's environmental health.
After viewing the videotape, learners will be able to:
- Identify at least three environmental health issues affecting children.
- Describe why environmental health risks have a greater effect on children than adults.
- Choose electronic information resources on the issues identified above.
- Identify major children's environmental health resources available from CDC, other governmental agencies, educational institutions, associations, and organizations.
- Perform basic searches in several National Library of Medicine databases including the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), TOXLINE, and MEDLINE.PubMed.
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