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Global Health with Greg Martin
Environmental Health
Welcome to a snapshot of the relationship between environmental health and public health. As our global community faces unprecedented challenges due to climate change, it's more important than ever to recognize how the environment...
Great Big Story
EcoAcoustics: Listening to the Rainforest for Conservation
Explore the Kalimantan rainforest of Borneo, Indonesia, through the ears of Dr Eddie Game, an environmental scientist using bioacoustic monitoring to save this biodiverse ecosystem. Join the team as they deploy smart microphones to...
Global Health with Greg Martin
One Health - thinking about human health, animal health and environmental health as one system
One health is about developing strategies that consider the interrelations between human health, the environment and animal health. Zoonotic outbreaks, where infectious diseases spread from animals to humans, is an example of the need to...
Food Farmer Earth
Kitchen Literacy 3
From the archives: Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and all the interrelated social, health, and environmental consequences that occur.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Reducing Household Chemical Risks
In these three public service videos from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, learn how to minimize exposure to pesticides, chemical contaminants, and secondhand smoke. Through simple demonstrations, the videos...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: The Effects of Pesticides on Children
This video segment adapted from Playing with Poison describes how children in the Yaqui Valley, one of the largest farming areas in Mexico, have been harmed by chronic exposure to pesticides. To study the long-term health effects of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: The Effects of Childhood Lead Poisoning
In this video adapted from Lead Awareness for Parents by the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, two mothers share their experiences about how their children suffered from lead poisoning. First, meet the Sanfilippo family who discovered...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Teens for Safe Cosmetics
In this video adapted from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative, meet Jessica, a high school student and leader for Teens for Safe Cosmetics. Learn about toxic chemicals in cosmetics and how the industry has been unregulated...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Green Chemistry
In this video adapted from 'Contaminated Without Consent,' participants in a national study talk about the toxic chemicals - including phthalates, BPA, and brominated flame retardants - found in dust samples from their homes. Scientist...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Potential Health Hazards of Vinyl Siding: Blue Vinyl
This video segment adapted from the independent film 'Blue Vinyl' examines the dangers associated with the building material known as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The film's narrator has a rare form of cervical cancer traced to her exposure...