Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
New Books!
The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:
1. Toxic injustice: a transnational history of exposure and struggle. By Susanna Rankin Bohme. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.
Call number: RA1270.P4 B586 2015.
Read a description, see the table of contents, and read reviews on the University of California Press website.
2. Our chemical selves: gender, toxics, and environmental health. Edited by Dayna Nadine Scott. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.
Call number: RA566.5.C2 O97 2015.
View the table of contents, see a preview, and read reviews on the UBC Press website.
3. Review of California’s risk-assessment process for pesticides. By the Committee to Review California’s Risk-Assessment Process for Pesticides, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2015.
Call number: RA1270.P4 R48 2015.
Also available online from the National Academies Press.
and here is a new title available online from the National Academies Press which require a free registration to download a pdf of the title:
4. Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.
Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).
If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.
PubMed Reaches 25,000,000 Citation Mark
And, in other news from the National Library of Medicine, on June 16, 2015, PubMed attained a major milestone when the 25 millionth journal citation was added to the database.
Have questions on PubMed? You can contact us with your questions! We can be reached from 8am – 5pm Monday through Friday by calling (510) 642-2510 and by logging in to the web portal.
Fall and Winter Holiday Hours for Your Research Needs
The Public Health Library will be closed on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 for Veterans Day.
The Public Health Library will also close at 5pm on Wednesday, November 25, and will be closed Thursday, November 26, and Friday, November 27, 2015 for Thanksgiving.
Although the Public Health Library will be closed to the public from December 21 to Jan 4, we are open for OEHHA services on December 21 to 23 from 8am to 5pm and December 28 to 30 from 9am to 5pm. If you wish to visit the library on any of these days, please let us know beforehand by calling 510-642-2510 so we can open the door for you and make sure that a librarian will be here to assist you.
Please plan ahead and anticipate your project needs, especially if you will be using our Document Delivery service.
You will still be able to reach us as usual from 8am to 5pm from December 21 to 23 and 9am to 5pm from December 28 to 30 by calling (510) 642-2510 and by logging in to the web portal at: http://publ.lib.berkeley.edu/
Thank you for continuing to use our valuable library services. We encourage you to let your new and existing colleagues know about our services and resources if they do not already use them.
Health Professionals’ Roles in Environmental Health: A free workshop
Presented by the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, this two day workshop will explore the relationship between human health and our environment, including air (indoor and outdoor), water, food, and products. You will learn how environmental considerations are an important part of health assessments for individuals and communities by health care providers.
On December 14 and 15, you’ll learn how to:
* Assess common environmental health exposures in homes, schools, workplaces, and communities
* Apply the basic principles of toxicology to environmental health problems
* Address environmental contributions to health disparities and environmental justice
* Access credible scientific sources of information
* Advocate for institutional and governmental policies that protect the environment and promote environmental health
* Develop institutional strategies in the health sector toward sustainability and environmental health
* Identify the special vulnerabilities to environmental impacts that humans face through the life stages
* Explore how our energy choices affect our health and climate change
This workshop is sponsored by the University of San Francisco, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Center for Environmental Health and will be held at the Presidio Campus of the University of San Francisco.
Click here for more information including how to register.
New link: TOMES now in OEHHA web portal
Looking for chemical information? Now you have access to another database that is licensed for you by the Public Health Library. You can try searching Micromedex’s TOMES Plus® database (Toxicology, Occupational Medicine, and Environmental Series). This resource is available to you through RightAnswer from MICROMEDEX.
The TOMES Plus databases includes HSDB, RTECS, and CCRIS documents, among many others.
To use this database, you can go to the Public Health Library Services to OEHHA page and click on RightAnswer/TOMES under the Key Resources column. Once there, you will need to login with your OEHHA e-mail address.
New URL for Public Health Library’s New Books Guide
Interested in keeping up to date on newly received public health publications? Want more titles than what we include in our monthly newsletter? Then you might like to check out our New Books guide! Updated weekly, you’ll get brief descriptions when you mouse over the book title. Clicking on the book cover takes you to the OskiCat record if it’s a print book. If it’s an electronic book, clicking the cover will take you to either OskiCat or to the publisher’s page. You’ll find The call numbers for the print books in OskiCat so that you can easily request the books you need for your research and those you’d like to read.
To request a book, you can log into your web portal account to request book(s).
You may also use our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
PubMed Renames Save Search Button
Do you like to save your PubMed searches in My NCBI? Then you should know that your ‘Save Search’ button has changed names. Now you will click on ‘Create Alert’ instead! After clicking on ‘Create Alert’, you can log in to your My NCBI account and then save your search as usual. You will have the same options to name the search and to receive emails with new citations that match your search daily, weekly, or monthly.
A screen shot of this change is available for you.
New Books!
The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:
1. Pesticides and global health: understanding agrochemical dependence and investing in sustainable solutions. By Courtney Marie Dowdall and Ryan J. Klotz. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2014.
Call number: RA441 .D69 2014.
Read a summary and a review on the publisher’s website.
2. Basic biostatistics: statistics for public health practice. By B. Burt Gerstman. Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2015.
Call number: RA409 .G47 2015.
Read a preview, see the table of contents, and read reviews on the publisher’s website.
3. Essentials of public health ethics. By Ruth Gaare Bernheim. Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2015.
Call number: R724 .B4356 2015.
View the table of contents, see a preview, and read reviews on the publisher’s website.
and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press which require a free registration to download a pdf of the title:
4. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 19 (2015). National Research Council. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.
5. Review of the Draft Interagency Report on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.
Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).
If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.
Holiday Hours for Your Research Needs
Although the Public Health Library will be closed to the public from December 21 – Jan 5, we are open for OEHHA services on December 23, 26, 27, and 30 as well as Jan 2-3 from 9am to 5pm. If you wish to visit the library on any of these days, please let us know beforehand by calling 510-642-2510 so we can open the door for you and make sure that a librarian will be here to assist you.
Please plan ahead and anticipate your project needs, especially if you will be using our Document Delivery service.
You will still be able to reach us as usual from 9am – 5pm by calling (510) 642-2510 and by logging in to the web portal.
Thank you for continuing to use our valuable library services. We encourage you to let your new and existing colleagues know about our services and resources if they do not already use them.
Happy Holidays to you from all of us at the Public Health Library!
Free Epidemiologic Software
Would a free epidemiological software tool be useful for your work? Then you might want to check out these three.
Epi Info is a free program from the CDC that allows the creation of data entry systems and the analysis of data. Version 7 can be copied into a Windows-based computer and can also be run from a flash drive. Epi Info is flexible and scalable, and was designed with epidemiologists and other public health workers lacking a background in information technology in mind.
OpenEpi provides a number of epidemiologic and statistical tools for summary data. OpenEpi can be run in browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. OpenEpi provides statistics for counts and measurements in descriptive and analytic studies, stratified analysis with exact confidence limits, matched pair and person-time analysis, sample size and power calculations, random numbers, sensitivity, specificity and other evaluation statistics, R x C tables, and chi-square for dose-response.
WinPepi consists of a set of Windows-based programs that provide most of the statistical procedures commonly used in the planning and analysis of epidemiological studies. These programs can be run from a flash drive.
You can read more about these at epimonitor:
http://epimonitor.net/Free_Epi_Software.htm
In addition, you may also be interested in perusing Wikipedia’s Comparison of Statistical Packages.