Resource Materials

Since 1998, ATSDR has provided funds to AOEC to

support a project establishing Pediatric Environmen-

tal Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) that special-

ize in children's environmental health issues. The

PEHSU for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska

is the Midwest Regional Pediatric Environmental

Health Center at the University of Iowa in Iowa

City. The center provides information and outreach

about pediatric, public health, and environmental

health issues to health care providers, educators,

communities, and families in the four states it serves.

Resource Materials

ATSDR develops materials that public health profes-

sionals and medical care providers can use to assess

the public health impacts of chemical exposures.

Resources are available in print, on the ATSDR Web

site, and on CD-ROM. For example, medical man-

agement guidelines are available for acute chemi-

cal exposures to more than 40 chemicals. ATSDR's

toxicological profiles comprehensively describe

health effects; pathways of human exposure; and the

behavior of more than 250 hazardous substances in

air, soil, and water at hazardous waste sites. In the

last 5 years, more than 6,000 of these profiles have

been sent to requesters, including representatives of

federal, state, and local health and environmental de-

partments; academic institutions; private industries;

and nonprofit organizations in Iowa. ATSDR has

also developed extensive resources for community

members.

For more information, contact ATSDR toll-free

at 1-888-42ATSDR (1-888-422-8737) or visit the

ATSDR Web page at www.atsdr.cdc.gov.

August 2003