Sponsor: Practice Greenhealth
A new report being released this month by Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families outlines the role of environmental contaminants in cancer, asthma, reproductive disorders, and other conditions. Learn about the report from a co-author and other leading researchers. Estimates of the proportion of the disease burden that can be attributed to toxic chemical exposures vary, ranging from 1 percent of all disease to 5 percent of childhood cancer, 10 percent of diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and neurodevelopmental deficits, and 30 percent of childhood asthma. A conservative estimate puts the health care cost savings attributable to a decline in the incidence of chronic disease due to reductions in chemical exposures at $5 billion per year. The report illustrates the opportunity to prevent disease and reduce health-care expenditures by overhauling the chemical management system in the United States. Speakers will be Charlotte Brody, RN, from Safer Chemicals Healthy Families; Richard Clapp, DSc, MPH, of Boston University School of Public Health; and Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, of the Science and Environmental Health Network.
Price: free
