The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) recognizes that clean air, water and land are essential to the public's health, and that hazardous substances or harmful conditions in our air, water, and land negatively impact individuals, animals, and ecological systems. By supporting initiatives that protect our air, water and land, we can protect and improve the public’s health.
For these reasons, the NHPHA supports the following efforts that will make our water, air and land healthier:

• Find creative and cost-effective means to reduce, abate, or eliminate hazardous chemicals and pollutants in our air, water, and land from all sources;
• Support comprehensive surveillance of environmental hazards, exposures, and health effects in which results are reported to citizens in a rapid, simple and high-quality format in order to identify and reduce toxic agents in the environment; and
• Increase participation of public health experts in establishing and enforcing standards for sound environmental policies.

Resources:

Bhatia, Rajiv, “Protecting Health Using an Environmental Impact Assessment: A Case Study of San Francisco Land Use Decisionmaking,” American Journal of Public Health 97:3 (March 2007) 406-413.

Dreyling, Erin, et al., “Tracking Health and the Environment: A Pilot Test of Environmental Public Health Indicators,” Journal of Environmental Health 70:5 (December 2007):9-16.

Moorman, Jeanne E., et al. “National Surveillance for Asthma—United States 1980-2004,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Surveillance Summaries, 56:SS08 (October 19, 2007) 1-14, 18-54.

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, NCEH Publication No. 05-0570, July 2005.  http://www.cdc.gov/exp...thirdreport.pdf

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Draft Report on the Environment 2003, http://www.epa.gov/roe...A_Draft_ROE.pdf