Endnotes of State School Environmental Health Guidelines
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- Buchanan, B. (2007). Sick buildings, sick students: Poor air quality and other environmental irritants can lead to health concerns for your students and staff. American School Board Journal, June, 48–50.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2010). EPA strategic plan. Retrieved 2012, from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:www.epa.gov/planandbudget/strategicplan.html.
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- American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health. (2003). Developmental toxicity: Special considerations based on age and developmental state. In Etzel, R., & S. Balk (Eds.), Pediatric Environmental Health(Second ed., pp. 9–36). Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2003). America's children and the environment: Measures of contaminants, body burdens, and illnesses (176pp, 1.1M). Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA/240/R-03/001.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2012). Indoor air quality tools for schools: High performance schools. April 5. Retrieved 2012, from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schooldesign/highperformance.html.
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- U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2010). Fast facts. Retrieved May 12, 2011, from National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372.
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- National Research Council. (2006). Green schools: Attributes for health and learning. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 192 pages.
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- U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2007). Public school principals report on their school facilities: Fall 2005. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. NCES 2007-007. January.http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2007/2007007.pdf (93pp, 674K).
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- National Research Council. (2011). Climate change, the indoor environment, and health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 286 pages.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2007). A decade of children's environmental health research: Highlights from EPA's science to achieve results program. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA/600/S-07/038. December. http://epa.gov/ncer/publications/research_results_synthesis/ceh_report_508.pdf (40pp, 1.3M).
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- Akinbami, L., Moorman, J., & Liu, X. (2011). Asthma prevalence, health care use, and mortality: United States, 2005–2009. National Health Statistic Reports, 32, 1–14.
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- Evans, G., & Kantrowitz, E. (2002). Socioeconomic status and health: The potential role of environmental risk exposure.Annual Review of Public Health, 23, 303–331.
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- U.S. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. (2000). Condition of America's public school facilities: 1999. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
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- Akinbami, L.J. (2006). The state of childhood asthma, United States, 1980–2005. Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics 381, 1–24.
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- Stores, G., Ellis, A.J., Wiggs, L., Crawford, C., & Thomson, A. (1998). Sleep and psychological disturbance in nocturnal asthma. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 78 (5): 413–419.
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- Chugh, I.M.,Khanna, P., & Shah, A. (2006). Nocturnal symptoms and sleep disturbances in clinically stable asthmatic children. Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology, 24 (2–3): 135–42.
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- Schneider, M. (2002). Public school facilities and teaching: Washington, DC and Chicago. Washington, DC: 21st Century School Fund. http://www.21csf.org/csf-home/Documents/Teacher_Survey/SCHOOL_FACS_AND_TEACHING.pdf (39pp, 677K)Exit.
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- Earthman, G., Cash, C., & Van Berkum, D. (1995). Student achievement and behavior and school building condition.Journal of School Business Management, 8 (3): 26–37.
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- Branham, D. (2004). The wise man builds his house upon the rock: The effects of inadequate school building infrastructure on student attendance. Social Science Quarterly, 85 (5), 1112–1128.
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- Myhryold, A., Olsen, E., & Lauridsen, O. (1996). Indoor environment in schools – Pupils health and performance in regard to CO2 concentrations. Presentation at the 7th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Nagoya, Japan.
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- Mendell, M. (1993). Non-specific symptoms in office workers: A review and summary of the epidemiologic literature.Indoor Air, 3 (4), 227–236.
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- Seppänen, O., Fisk, W.J., & Mendell, M.J.. (1999). Association of ventilation rates and CO2 concentrations with health and other responses in commercial and institutional buildings. Indoor Air, 9 (4), 226–252.
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- Apte, M., Fisk, W., & Daisey, J. (2000). Associations between indoor CO2 concentrations and sick building syndrome symptoms in U.S. office buildings: An analysis of the 1994–1996 BASE study data. Indoor Air, 10 (4), 246–257.
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- Shendell, D., Prill, R., Fisk, W., Apte, M., Blake, D., & Faulkner, D. (2004). Associations between classroom CO2concentrations and student attendance in Washington and Idaho. Indoor Air, 14 (5), 331–341.
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- Shaughnessy, R., Haverinen-Shaughnessy, U., Nevalainen, A., & Moschandreas, D. (2006). A preliminary study on the association between ventilation rates in classrooms and student performance. Indoor Air, 16 (6), 465–468.
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- Durán-Narucki, V. (2008). School building condition, school attendance, and academic achievement in New York City public schools: A mediation model. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28, 278–286.
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- Öhlund, L., & Ericsson, K. (1994). Elementary school achievement and absence due to illness. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 155 (4), 409–421.
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- Stolz, A., Knickelbein, A., & Coburn, S. (2008). Linking coordinated school health to student success. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Association of School Nurses, Albuquerque, NM.
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- Vinciullo, F. (2008). The relationship between multi-component school health programs and school achievement. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Association of School Nurses, Albuquerque, NM.
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- National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities. (2010). Green schools as high performance learning facilities. Washington, DC: National Institute of Building Sciences. September. http://www.ncef.org/pubs/greenschools.pdf (16pp, 503K) Exit.
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- Landrigan, P., Schechter, C., Lipton, J., Fahs, M., & Schwartz, J. (2002). Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: Estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental disabilities. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110 (7), 721–728.
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Asthma in the U.S. May. Retrieved February 13, 2012, from Vital Signs: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/Asthma.
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- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2011). IHS Fact Sheets. January. Retrieved 2012, from Indian Health Services: http://www.ihs.gov/PublicAffairs/IHSBrochure/Disparities.asp.
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- Regents Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality in Schools. (1995). Guiding Principles for Improving the Environmental Quality of Schools. Retrieved 2012, from New York State Board of Regents:http://www.p12.nysed.gov/facplan/policy/environmental_quality_schools.html Exit.
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- Neal, D.E. (2008). Healthy schools: A major front in the fight for environmental justice. Environmental Law, 38 (2), 473–494.
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- Everett Jones, S., Axelrad, R., & Wattigney, W.A. (2007). Healthy and safe school environment, part II, physical school environment: Results from the school health policies and programs study 2006. Journal of School Health, 77 (8), 544–556.
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). School health programs: Improving the health of our nation's youth—At a glance 2011. March 21. Retrieved 2012, from Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion:http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/AAG/dash.htm.