Healthy Homes

Building Environment – This section from Emergency and Terrorism Preparedness for Environmental Health Practitioners provides resources on protecting building environments as well as general links on improving indoor air quality.

Building Local Capacity to Respond to Indoor Mold Problems and Health Complaints [DOC - 654 KB] – development of a strategic plan to build capacity to respond to indoor mold problems and health complaints at the local level. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

CDC and HUD to Release an Updated Housing Inspection Manual—The Healthy Housing Reference Manual [PDF - 191 KB] – discusses revision of CDC’s 30-year-old Basic Housing Inspection manual and its release as the Healthy Housing Reference Manual. This is one in a series of monthly Environmental Health Services Branch columns in the Journal of Environmental Health.

CDC Healthy Homes Initiative – coordinated, comprehensive, and holistic approach to preventing diseases and injuries that result from housing-related hazards and deficiencies

CDC Healthy Homes Web site – leads you through rooms in your home and provides tips for preventing hazards

Environmental Public Health Online Courses (EPHOC) – a comprehensive online/on-demand package of courses for environmental public health practitioners including a module on housing sanitation and safety

Healthy Housing Inspection Manual – introduces the elements of an all-inclusive home inspection

Healthy Housing Reference Manual – revision provides information on the impact of housing on health and safety

Integrated Pest Management: Conducting Urban Rodent Surveys [PDF - 1.04 MB] – update of the 1974 CDC Urban Rat Surveys manual includes information about integrated pest management (IPM)

Pictorial Keys to Arthropods, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of Public Health Significance – pictorial keys used to teach animal identification to personnel (sanitarians, engineers, physicians, veterinarians, etc.) without special training in taxonomy

Reducing the Health Impact From Former Methamphetamine Labs in Kentucky [DOC - 975 KB] – implemented and distributed to all health departments in the state interim cleanup guidance for protection of citizens and public health workers. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Links to information from outside CDC

Healthy Homes Program (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) – initiative to protect children and their families from housing-related health and safety hazards

National Center for Healthy Housing – develop and promote practical methods to protect children from environmental health hazards in their homes while preserving affordable housing

• National Healthy Homes Clearinghouse – online tool to search for information about the connection between health and housing and environmental health and safety hazards in the home
• National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network – partnership of public health and housing practitioners to promote practical and cost-effective methods for making homes healthier

Washtenaw County Healthy Home Portal (Washtenaw County, Michigan) – resources to remediate environmental hazards and risks around your home

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