Focus research report:

Environmental Health

• Briefing Notes/Backgrounders
• Bulletin of the Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment
• Toxic Use Reduction Legislation Recommendations [PDF, 109kb], 2008
  The Take Charge on Toxics campaign — a partnership including the Ontario Division of the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Environmental Law Association, United Steelworkers, The Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition and OPHA committed to supporting the development of an environmental and occupational carcinogen use reduction strategy in Ontario — has developed a set of ten recommendations to be promoted in the process of creating toxic use reduction regulations.
• Cancer and the Environment in Ontario: Gap Analysis on the Reduction of Environmental Carcinogens [PDF], OPHA Environmental Health Workgroup, July 20, 2007
• Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease [PDF], World Health Organization, 2006
  How much disease could be prevented through better management of our environment? The environment influences our health in many ways — through exposures to physical, chemical and biological risk factors, and through related changes in our behaviour in response to those factors. To answer this question, the available scientific evidence was summarized and more than 100 experts were consulted for their estimates of how much environmental risk factors contribute to the disease burden of 85 diseases.
• Child Health and the Environment: a Primer (PDF, 2.7MB), en Français [PDF, 2.8MB], Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE), November, 2005
• School Buses, Air Pollution and Children's Health: Improving Children's Health and Local Air Quality by Reducing School Bus Emissions [PDF, 4.9MB], November, 2005
  • Presentation: School Buses, Air Pollution, and Children's Health: Improving Children's Health and Local Air Quality by Reducing School Bus Emissions [PDF, 2.4MB]
• Retrofitting Transit Buses to Reduce Air Emissions [PPT, 145kb]
• Emission Reduction Options for Ontario School Buses (PDF, 465kb), October, 2005
• Environmental Threats to Children: Understanding the Risks, Enabling Prevention (PDF, 1.0MB), Dr. David McKeown, Medical Officer of Health, Toronto Public Health, September, 2005
• Fuelling Clean Air: Municipal Fuel Purchasing Policies that Reduce Emissions Contributing to Poor Air Quality & Climate Change (PDF, 497kb), March, 2003
• Beyond Coal: Power, Public Health and the Environment (PDF, 812KB), November, 2002