The JeffSTARS (Jefferson Service Training in Advocacy for Residents and Students) Program helps future doctors become voices for children's health in clinic settings and the community.
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Environmental Health
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Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit. Physicians for Social Responsibility and the AAP
Related Articles
The Physician’s Response to Climate Change. Mona Sarfaty, MD; Safiya Abouzaid, PharmD
Committee on Environmental Health Global Climate Change and Children's Health. Pediatrics, Nov 2007; 120: 1149 - 1152.
Climate Change and Children. Pediatric Clinics of North America. April 2007, Pages 213-226. Kristie L. Ebi, Jerome A. Paulson
The Use of the Internet for Children’s Health and the Environment. Pediatric Clinics of North America, February 2007, Pages 135.e1-135.e39
Jerome A. Paulson, Stacey J. Arnesen: a 19-page article on internet resources on environmental health.
Pediatric Advocacy (and Environmental Health) Pediatric Clinics of North America, October 2001, Pages 1307-1318. Jerome A. Paulson
Impact of regional climate change on human health. Jonathan A. Patz, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Tracey Holloway & Jonathan A Foley. Nature. November 2005.
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