Videotapes

Can Buildings Make You Sick? 1995, NOVA.

Caution: Foundry at Work 1998, NIOSH-TV/U.S. Government

Child’s Play 1997, Lake Michigan Federation

Clinical Issues in Environmental Epidemiology 1989
Tape 1:Public Health Context of Clinical Aspects of Environmental Exposure. R.J. Jackson, MD, MPH & P. Newman.
Environmental health in context of primary care & practitioner's role in identifying environmental health hazards .

Tape 2: Clinical Evaluation of Suspected Environmental and/or Occupational Illnesses. Laura S. Welch, MD.
Outlines approach to identifying environmental/occupational hazards & history taking.

Tape 3: Assessing Environmental Exposures. S.A. McCurdy, MD, MPH.
introduces concepts of hazardidentification, dose-response assessment, & exposure assessment .

Tape 4: Toxicology: A Problem-solving Approach. Jon Rosenberg, MD.
Principles of clinical toxicology related to environmental exposure .

Tape 5: Neurotoxicology. R.G. Feldman, MD.
Diagnosis, evaluation, & treatment of encephalopathy, behavioral disturbances, peripheral neuropathy, & neurotoxic syndromes .

Tape 6: Sensitivity, Allergy, and the Immune System. Robert Harrison, MD.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: diagnostic testing; medical & psychological mgmt. of immunotoxic events .

Tape 7: Pediatric Aspects of Environmental Epidemiology. Lynn R. Goldman, MD. Overview of pediatric environmental health.

Community Challenge: Hazardous Materials Response and the Emergency Medical System.
1997, Dept. Of Health & Human Services.

El Terror Invisible: Pesticide Safety in North Carolina (2002)
53.5 minutes. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2000. Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Sara Quandt, PhD, principal investigators. This videotape contains three segments in Spanish with English subtitles addressing pesticide safety, pesticide handlers and green tobacco sickness. Each segment can be viewed separately, but the second and third segments build on information presented in the first. The video is accompanied by the manual: Preventing Agricultural Chemical Exposure: A Safety Program Manual (2000).

Environmental Health: A Nursing Opportunity, 2000, Public Health Training Network, CDC, ATSDR
Addresses environmental health issues, including taking an exposure history, strategies for intervention and prevention, as well as related tools and resources to integrate into all areas of nursing practice. 2 hours, 14 minutes

ETO-Ethylene Oxide, NIOSH
Provides very good information for taking learners into the hospital for a teaching worksite visit. Good to illustrate engineering controls, and work practices.

Ergonomic Health: Knowing the Challenge
Thomas McCoy, DO and Medical Ergonomics Society
Five tape introduction to management of ergonomic health issues from a variety of perspectives. Each tape runs about one hour.

Tape 1: Changing How We Work
Introduction to ergonomic principles.

Tape 2: Medical Management
Introduction to medical management of ergonomic problems.

Tape 3: Claims Management
Introduction for staff who handle claims and insurance paperwork.

Tape 4: Employer Management
How employers can manage and prevent ergonomic problems

Tape 5: The Employee as Manager
The role of the employee in managing and preventing ergonomicproblems.

Family Practice Update: Reproductive Hazards in the Environment

The Finest Tools, NIOSH
Ergonomics introduction.

Fire Fighter
George Washington University
Introductory discussion of medical interviews, community medicine, pulmonary physiology. Target audience is first and second year medical students.

Five Walnuts: The Health Effects of Asbestos
Occ. Health Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital.

From Negative to Positive, 1998
Basics of tuberculosis.
Developed by the Medical College of PA? Hahnemann University under a grant from the National Inst. Of Environmental Health Sciences, 14:45 min.

Guardians of the Workplace
American Board of Industrial Hygiene, 1989
Professionalism in the field of industrial hygiene

Health Talk: Understanding Material Safety Data Sheets
MA State Emergency Response Commission, 1989.

He's Not the Man I Married...Could it be Lead?" / "No es el hombre con quien me case...Sera el plomo?
California Department of Health Services.
In Spanish and English this is targeted at a lay audience. It describes workplace lead exposure and how to prevent it. It also describes the effects it has on the worker and their family and what can be done if one is lead poisoned.

How to Take an Occupational & Environmental History
Developed by Linda Frazier, MD, MPH, & Gary Greenberg, MD, MPH, & produced at Duke University Medical Center at the EPOCH-Envi Center, 1993.
7 minutes, with worksheet.

Introduction to the Exposure History
Wayne State University/ Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, MS.
Demonstrates taking of a comprehensive occupational & environmental exposure history.

Kids at Risk: How to Cover Children’s Environmental Health Stories
Produced by The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.
A 60 minute program to provide journalists with information to help them understand and cover environmental issues. 1997.

Lead Abatement for This Old House
WGBH, Boston
Shows contractor and workers removing exterior paint from an old house. Shows worker and environmental protections. Brief discussion of health effects of lead. Lively!

Lead, Nutrition, and Your Child
Nine minute segment, targeted at parents, on the role of nutrition in lead poisoning.

Not By Chance
Reducing occupational exposures & hazards, Workplace Health Fund, 1990.

Painter With New Symptoms
Harvard Medical School, 1996
Presents a patient’s history and physical exam in determining the development of lead poisoning. This tape may not be copied, but may be purchased through the Harvard Medical School.

A Pesky Problem
1997 Basics of possible health effects due to pesticides.
Developed by the Medical College of PA/Hahnemann University under a grant from the National Inst. of Environmental Health Services, 19 min.

Protectors of the Workplace
American Board of Industrial Hygiene, 1993
Introduction to the field of industrial hygiene.

RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury): The Hidden Crippler
The Newspaper Guild, 1990

Song of the Canary: A Film About the Dangers of the American Workplace
Josh Hanig and David Davis/New Day Films
Basic introduction to the issues of occupational health and safety, makes some links with environmental issues as well .

The Doctor Never Asked Me
Janie Gordon, ScM and James Keough, MD, Occupational Health Project University of Maryland
Discussion by six workers of their conditions and problems getting those conditions properly diagnosed. Includes discussion by family members as well. Excellent for students and others new to the field .

Working Condition
Instructional Development Center, Univ. of Vermont.