Studies  have been done on health effects of pollutants in  Europe and 
US, with
regard to  time and location of exposure to pollutants. What we lack here is
mental attitude. The medical profession until 1998 was not aware nor 
interested
in reseach on environmental pollutants causing cancer, affecting 
cardiovascular
disease, migraine, premature death.  Environmentalists  have been ahead of the
medical profession for years researching data, and they have also been ignored
for years.

This mentality and restricted agenda and mandate of the Chief Medical 
Officer is
what prompted me to write the letter to the Minister of Health,  which I
enclosed for your information and support to follow up 2 weeks ago.

It is much easier to prevent cancer than to treat it; it is easier to prevent
carcinogenic toxics in our environment than to use bandaid treatment while the
root of the problem is still in our midst.

Please, follow up on the letter I enclosed on this list.

Lela Gary
Air Pollution Coalition.


Quoting CUHI <[log in to unmask]>:

> The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives presents:
>
> “Urban Population Exposure to Environmental Hazards: Approaches and
> Utilities”
>
> Dr. Audrey Smargiassi, Ph.D., Researcher, Quebec Institute of Public Health;
> Adjunct Professor, University of Quebec; Member, Centre for Urban Health
> Initiatives and of the Lea Roback Research Centre on Social and Health
> Inequities.  
>
> Tuesday, May 2, 2006
> 1:10 - 2:10PM
> University College, Rm. 256, University of Toronto
> 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
> Map: http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/index2.html
> RSVP by May 1 to Galen Trull at [log in to unmask] or 416-978-7223
>
> Abstract
> A major challenge in assessing the health impact of environmental hazards in
> our urban environments is to estimate exposure of individuals in large
> populations. In population exposure assessment, few studies have taken into
> account exposure in both time and space. Dr Smargiassi will present
> in-development methodologies to estimate population exposure in space and
> time, to urban environmental hazards (such as to indoor heat, to industrial
> air emissions and to firework emission plumes). Such methodologies are being
> developed to evaluate the health impact of urban exposure to environmental
> hazards and to characterize environmental inequity. They are also being
> developed for modeling activities to orient urban development interventions
> to minimize population exposure.
>
> Biography
> Audrey Smargiassi obtained her Ph.D. in environmental sciences in 1996.
> Supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada, she pursued
> postdoctoral studies in neurotoxicology in Italy. With the Quebec Institute
> of Public Health since 2000, her research is now focused on ways to assess
> environmental exposure in population health studies as well as on ways to
> assess determinants of exposure to better target interventions in
> environmental health. She is an adjunct professor at the University of
> Quebec in Montreal and a member of CUHI and of the Lea Roback research
> Centre on Social and Health Inequities.
>
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
>
> Galen Trull
> Centre Coordinator
> Centre for Urban Health Initiatives
> www.cuhi.utoronto.ca
> Ph: 416-978-7223
> Fx: 416-946-0669
> Em: [log in to unmask]
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