Antenatal Ultrasound and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders
-- Since being introduced into obstetrical care in the 1970s, antenatal ultrasound examinations have become widely accepted in obstetrical practice as a routine, non-invasive tool for determining the size,...
Asthma in California: Laying the Foundation for a Statewide Strategy
-- Report on a Conference Sponsored by the California Policy Research Center and the California Department of Health Services, May 29, 1998 (Richard Kreutzer, Michael Lipsett, Julie Von Behren, and Eileen...
Bioaerosols and Green-Waste Composting in California
-- Review of medical literature regarding biological agents and their metabolic or degradation products that are produced during the composting of yard waste (grass clippings, shrubbery, leaves, etc.)....
The Burden of Asthma in California: A Surveillance Report
-- This report presents a comprehensive picture of the burden of asthma in the state and serves to provide a framework for asthma education, interventions, and policy in California.
California Environmental Health Indicators Report
-- An environmental health indicator is a measure of health, environmental quality, or sociodemographics which is important for monitoring the overall health of the population of California....
Cancer Incidence Near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory: 1978-1989
-- This report is a follow-up to a preliminary analysis of cancer incidence near Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) released by the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) in January...
Health Effects Study: Del Amo, Montrose
-- In 1984 an epidemiological investigation was carried out in communities near the Del Amo and Montrose hazardous waste sites in Los Angeles by the Epidemiological Studies and Surveillance Section....
Investigation of the Montecito Leukemia and Lymphoma Cluster
-- In April 1989, Montecito citizens concerned about what they believed to be an unusually high number of cancer cases among neighborhood children contacted the Santa Barbara County Health Department for...
McFarland Child Health Screening Project
-- The McFarland Child Health Screening Project was conducted by the California Department of Health Services in response to community concerns about adverse childhood health conditions in McFarland, California,...
Montecito Union School Magnetic Field Survey
-- In September 1989, California Department of Health Services (DHS) staff conducted a survey of magnetic field levels at Montecito Union School as part of the DHS Leukemia and Lymphoma Cluster Investigation...
On the Twin Risk in Autism
-- Autism is considered by many to be the most strongly genetically influenced multifactorial childhood psychiatric disorder....
Operating Industries, Inc. Health Effects Study
-- The Operating Industries, Inc (OII) waste disposal site located in Monterey Park, CA, opened in 1948 as a municipal landfill and began accepting hazardous materials from 1976 until operations ended in...
Palos Verdes Shelf Outreach And Education Pilot Project Report
-- This report provides background information on the Palos Verdes Shelf fish contamination issue, and describes and evaluates the accomplishments of the Palos Verdes Shelf Education Project.
Pregnancy outcomes in Mexican and U.S.-born Hispanics
-- The objective of this investigation was to evaluate a number of personal, socioeconomic, behavioral, cultural, health care, and environmental factors in explaining differences in birth outcomes between...
Pregnancy outcomes in Santa Clara County 1980-1985
-- In 1981 a leak of solvents from an underground storage tank was detected at the Fairchild Camera Company, an electronics manufacturing company in Santa Clara County....
Report on the Stringfellow Health Effects Studies
-- The Stringfellow Acid Pits is a former industrial waste disposal facility five miles northwest of Riverside, CA, near the community of Glen Avon....
Sacramento hepatoblastoma cluster investigation
-- In November 1989, the Sacramento press called the California Department of Health Services (DHS) regarding an apparent cluster of hepatoblastoma (a form of liver cancer) cases among Sacramento area children....
Saugus Schools Environmental Health Consultation Report
-- The Environmental Health Investigations Branch of the California Department of Health Services has assessed the concerns about threats to children?s health from inhabiting portable classrooms at Rio Vista,...
Soil sampling at schools in Imperial County, California
-- The Environmental Health Investigations Branch of the California Department of Health Services, as part of ongoing research on the United States/Mexico Border, previously identified schools in Imperial...
Strategic Plan for Asthma in California
-- The California Department of Health Services (DHS) sponsored the development of this Strategic Plan (Plan) for Asthma in California to set a direction to address this important public health issue over...
Trends in the sex ratio of California births, 1960–1996
-- Study objective: The male sex ratio at birth (or the proportion of male births in a population) has been suggested as a sentinel environmental health indicator....
Water exposure and pregnancy outcomes
-- In 1981, a leak of toxic chemicals into a drinking water well in San Jose, California was discovered to have come from an underground waste solvent storage tank at the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company....
