Other Regional Integrated Assessments

Other Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments activities in the United States funded by NOAA - Office of Global Programs . These are focused on:

• Pacific Northwest
• Southwest
• California
• Inter-Mountain West
• Southeast regions of the United States

A separate National Assessment on the Impacts of Climate Change on the United States is being conducted by the US Global Change Research Program.

The New England Regional Assessment portion of the National Assessment is being conducted by scientists at the Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire.

Climate, Air Quality, and Human Health Organizations

AllAllergy.Net
Your Gateway to All Asthma, Allergy and Intolerance Information on the Web

American Lung Association of Maine
The American Lung Association of Maine's mission is to lead in lung health promotion and lung disease prevention for Maine

Breathing Easier through Air Monitoring (BEAM)

The BEAM project provides a unique opportunity for the Portland community to find out about its air during any given hour, day, or month. In the past, Portland residents have had to wait over a year to find out about air pollution in their neighborhoods via the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MEDEP) Annual Air Quality Report. Air pollution in Portland, as in other areas of Maine, does sometimes reach unhealthy levels.

Boston Public Health Commission
The Boston Public Health Commission, created in July, 1996 is an independent public agency comprised of a variety of preventative health services. Our mission is to protect, preserve and promote the health and well-being of all Boston residents, particularly those who are most vulnerable. Our mission is met through the provision and support of accessible, high quality and community based health care, disease and injury prevention, health promotion and health education.

Canada Health and Air Quality
This site covers the ins and outs of air quality and informs you about what is being done to protect the health of Canadians, from a description of pollutants and lung diseases, to research, risk assessment and regulations development.

Center for Disease Control - Air Pollution and Respiratory Health
The Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch of the National Center for Environmental Health directs the fight of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) against respiratory illness associated with air pollution.

Children's Environmental Health Network
The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment. This website provides information on the Network, the issue of children's environmental health, and links to sources of information and resources in the field.

Climate Change and Human Health: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
Health Sector Assessment of the US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change

Environmental Protection Agency
EPA's Indoor Environments Division has launched a national public education and prevention program in response to the asthma epidemic in the United States. The goal of the Asthma and Indoor Environments outreach program is to raise public awareness of indoor environmental asthma triggers (e.g., secondhand smoke, dust mites, mold, pet dander, and cockroaches) and actions that can be taken to reduce children's exposure to them in homes, schools and child care settings. The EPA is working to insure that environmental management is fully incorporated into all asthma education and disease management programs.
The EPA Office of Research and Development has announced the availability of a new report, the Asthma Research Strategy. The Asthma Research Strategy serves to guide the planning of EPA research efforts led by the Office of Research and Development (ORD) to address the significant issues of exposures, effects, risk assessment, and risk management of environmental pollutants relevant to asthma. The report highlights significant information gaps in each of these areas, prioritizes the research needs, and proposes advisory guidelines indicating how available resources can be utilized to advance scientific knowledge and control environmental factors that contribute to asthma prevalence and severity.

Environment and Human Health, Inc
EHHI is a nonprofit organization made up of doctors, public health professionals and policy experts dedicated to the purpose of protecting public health from environmental harms through research, education and the promotion of sound public policy.

Health Effects Institute
The Health Effects Institute (HEI) is an independent, nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of pollutants from motor vehicles and from other sources in the environment.

Johns Hopkins Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web
The Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web provides information on research conducted between 1998-2000 about the potential impacts of climate change through integrated assessment. This web site aims to appropriately characterize and communicate the scientific research to support policy development and analysis.

Manchester Health Department, New Hampshire
The information presented in this website highlights some of the work of the Manchester Health Department in New Hampshire and some community health issues of importance to our community. We hope that you'll find our clinic schedules and information about permits, inspections, and other services helpful. The department routinely examines current and emerging public health issues and implements appropriate prevention strategies to insure that our public health is continually improving.

New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is an agency that helps people. We do this in partnerships with families, community groups, private providers, other government agencies and many thousands of foster parents, neighbors and citizens who make New Hampshire a special place to be caring individuals.

Portland Community Health Assessment and Source book 2000
The Greater Portland Partners for Health (GPPH) has made The Greater Portland Community Health Assessment and Source Book available at their webpage. The purposes of the compendium are to: establish a common body of information about the health status of the Portland area population; facilitate a community dialogue about health and human service needs and priorities; initiate a process whereby key indicators of community health status receive critical review, modification or validation, and receive interpretation; and, exhibit existing issue-based data with an eye to improving health information infrastructure.

Synoptic Climatology Lab
The synoptic climatology group performs research involving numerous applied climatological issues that affect humans and other organisms around the world.

Vermont Explor
The data-processing unit of the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS). At this site, you can browse our extensive data products, read about us, and get contact information.

Research Journals