The Environment category includes HealthLinkBC File topics on air quality, and recreation awareness topics such as: ultraviolet light, water safety, and West Nile virus.
Environment
Please note that all HealthLinkBC File PDFs are two pages and under 1 megabyte each.
Air Quality
- Health Risks of Alternative Tobacco Products (#30b)
- Indoor Air Quality (#65a)
- Indoor Air Quality: Combustion By-products (#65c)
- Indoor Air Quality: Mould and Other Biological Contaminants (#65b)
- Indoor Air Quality: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) (#65d)
- Particulate Matter and Outdoor Air Pollution (#65e)
- Quitting Smoking (#30c)
- Radon in Homes and Other Dwellings (#42)
- The Harmful Effects of Second-hand Smoke (#30a)
Recreation Awareness
- Campylobacter Infection (#58)
- Cryptosporidium Infection (#48)
- E. coli Infection (#02)
- Giardia Infection (#10)
- Aerial Spraying in B.C.'s Forests (#90b)
- Blue-green Algae (Cyanobacteria) Blooms (#47)
- Disinfecting Drinking Water (#49b)
- Gypsy Moth Spraying (#90a)
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (#36)
- Health Risks in the Wilderness (#24)
- Heat-related Illness (#35)
- Immunization for Health Care Workers in B.C. (#66)
- Insect Repellents and DEET (#96)
- Outdoor Air Quality Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) (#65f)
- Particulate Matter and Outdoor Air Pollution (#65e)
- Petting Zoo and Open Farm Visits (#61b)
- Preventing Water-Borne Infections For People with Weakened Immune Systems (#56)
- Rabies (#07a)
- Residential Hot Tubs and Pools: Health and Safety Tips (#27a)
- Residential Hot Tubs and Pools: Safe Water Quality (#27b)
- Role of Pets in Human Disease (#61a)
- Safety Tips for Swimmers (#39)
- Shigellosis (#80)
- Sun Safety for Children (#26)
- Swimmer's Itch (#52)
- Tick Bites and Disease (#01)
- Ultraviolet Radiation (#11)
- Waterborne Infections in British Columbia (#49a)
- West Nile Virus (#88)
- Yersiniosis (#77)
