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We have resources on dozens of important environmental health topics presented in various forms including Evidence Reviews, Evidence Briefs and Research Scans, Subject Guides, Blogs, Webinar Recordings, and Videos and Tools. Please see this page for more information concerning these document types. Browse the topics and discover what is available.
Monitoring healthy growth: Community design and perception baseline indicators
July 20, 2022
Webinar Recordings
This webinar will provide an overview of The Healthy Community Design (HCD) Baseline Project developed by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health and published in the Canadian Journal…
Climate change, coastal communities, and food from the sea
July 20, 2022
Evidence Brief and Research Scan
Climate change is predicted to have significant impacts on food globally, with foods grown in the sea affected by changing ocean conditions and more frequent, intense, and prolonged extreme events.…
Benzene contamination in sunscreen: Not worth getting burned
July 20, 2022
Evidence Brief and Research Scan
Unprotected exposure to solar radiation is a major cause of skin cancer. Approximately 80-90% of skin cancers are believed to be attributable to skin damage from solar…
Leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) for environmental public health practice
July 15, 2022
Journal Articles
Abstract Advances in geographic information systems (GIS) over the last few decades have enabled innovative solutions to long-standing challenges in environmental public health (EPH) research and…
Preventing injuries and deaths during extreme heat events
July 06, 2022
Webinar Recordings
Rising temperatures are one of the biggest global health threats of the 21st century. They underscore a critical need for ambitious adaptation and advancement of protective measures to safeguard the…
Canadian Databases for Ticks and Mosquitoes
June 24, 2022
Evidence Review
The NCCID and NCCEH have compiled a list of provincial and territorial mosquito and tick datasets including what information the databases contain and who to contact to access the data. This dataset…
Extreme heat health check tool
June 22, 2022
Evidence Review
Extreme heat events affect different people in different ways, and some people are at higher risk of experiencing heat-related illness if they do not have air conditioning. One way to reduce the…
June Research Scan with COVID-19 Sections
June 15, 2022
Blog Post
This monthly Research Scan highlights recent environmental health publications by topic and provides easy access to article abstracts and report summaries to support public health professionals,…
Climate change and Indigenous peoples’ health in Canada
June 09, 2022
Webinar Recordings
Abstract This presentation will highlight the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s (NCCIH) collaboration on the 2022 national assessment titled the Health of Canadians in a…
Fires, floods & hurricanes: Protecting Canadians by identifying and managing threats to safe drinking water
May 27, 2022
Webinar Recordings
In the past decade, climate change-exacerbated landscape disturbances such as wildfires and floods have threatened water security by altering not only water availability, but also source water…