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Environmental Health

CDC: Heat & Health Tracker
The CDC Heat & Health Tracker provides local heat and health information so communities can better prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. Use the search to explore how extreme heat affects your county, populations that are at risk, and resources for response.
Household Products Database
Health and safety information on household products
National Center for Environmental Health
From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Enviro-health Links
From the National Library of Medicine.
Childhood Lead Poisoning and Prevention
CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is committed to the Healthy People (http://www.healthypeople.gov/) goal of eliminating elevated blood lead levels in children by 2010.
Lead and Human Health
From the National Library of Medicine.

Florida Department of Health
The Florida Department of Health works to protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, & community efforts
Division of Environmental Health
The Florida Department of Health works to prevent disease of environmental origin.
Florida Disaster Plan
The Division of Emergency Management plans for and responds to both natural and man-made disasters.
Florida Clean Indoor Air Act
The purpose of this part is to protect people from the health hazards of secondhand smoke and to implement the Florida health initiative in the state constitution.
Florida Radon Program
The Radon Program is part of the Bureau of Environmental Health in the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection. It was created to be a public resource for accurate information about radon, its health effects, how to test and how to fix radon problems.

Emerging Pathogens Institute
The Emerging Pathogens Institute was created to provide a world-class research environment to facilitate interdisciplinary studies of emergence and control of pathogens of concern to Florida, to the nation and to the world.
Center for Environmental & Human Toxicology
The Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology serves as the focal point at the University of Florida for activities concerning the effects of chemicals on the environment, human and animal health.
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
The Whitney Lab is dedicated to using marine model animals for studying fundamental problems in biology and applying that knowledge to issues of human health, natural resources, and the environment.