Introduction
Welcome to the Canadian Society for Environmental Medicine's website.
CSEM Overview:
The
CSEM was founded in 1985 as a non-profit charitable foundation. Membership is
comprised of individuals who practice, or are interested in, environmental
medicine. Environmental medicine relates to an area of medical practice that
concerns medical treatments for individuals whom have become ill due to adverse
environmental factors such as pollution and allergens etc...CSEM Purpose:
- To advance understanding of reciprocal relationships between humans and their environments in order to improve the health and well-being of both.
- to clinically observe and report relationships between environmental exposures and illnesses, particularly environmental hypersensitivity
- to participate in research designed to identify illness factors such as allergens, toxins, radiations, microbes, suboptimal nutrition, etc. and to understand how they compromise the body's homeostatic defenses
- to advocate for reduction of known toxic agents in the public environment
- to assist physicians to help their patients to avoid their specific environmental stressors when possible; to provide immunological and nutritional supports; and to relieve symptoms with appropriate medications when necessary
- to assist physicians and patient self-help organizations to help the hypersensitive with stress management, family education, support, and advocacy
- to encourage individual responsibility for health and partnership between doctors and patients in preventing or minimizing illnesses.
CSEM Activities:
• advocating for the environmentally hypersensitive
• supporting self-help groups
• networking with physicians
• organizing and/or contributing to conferences/workshops/courses
• sponsoring an environmental physician mentorship program
• conducting literature reviews
• writing position statements, which may be viewed by clicking here
• participating in consensus workshops
• taking part in university-based research
• public speaking to encourage environmental conservation activities
• supporting self-help groups
• networking with physicians
• organizing and/or contributing to conferences/workshops/courses
• sponsoring an environmental physician mentorship program
• conducting literature reviews
• writing position statements, which may be viewed by clicking here
• participating in consensus workshops
• taking part in university-based research
• public speaking to encourage environmental conservation activities
For further information about the CSEM, please review our
Position Paper
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Join CSEM
Membership benefits:
Every CSEM member has the opportunity to:
- be listed in the Society's resource base
- network with physicians with similar interests to share ideas and concerns about patient care
- receive from CSEM timely updates and educational literature
- be eligible for reduced American Academy of Environmental Medicine fees for courses, conferences and membership
- influence Canadian public policy regarding environmental health issues
Our membership application form can be downloaded by clicking here.
We look forward to receiving new qualified members.
News
August 28, 2007
The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) now recognizes Environmental Sensitivities as a disability.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission's website states:
"Individuals with environmental sensitivities experience a variety of
adverse reactions to environmental agents at concentrations well below
those that might affect the “average person”. This medical condition is
a disability and those living with environmental sensitivities are
entitled to the protection of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which
prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability."
For more information, click: CHRC
May 14, 2007
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has made public a research study authored by Dr. Meg Sears on Environmental Sensitivities. The report, entitled “The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities”, can be downloaded by clicking here.
Events
There are no events currently planned.
Research
Educational video on Environmental
Sensitivities:
To view the video, please click here.
May 14, 2007
CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION RELEASES MEDICAL REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL
SENSITIVITIES
The key to prevention and management of this illness is avoidance of toxic
triggers.
The CSEM wish to commend the Canadian Human Rights Commission on their recently
released report titled “The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities.”
This work was researched and written by Meg Sears, M.Eng., Ph.D., with technical
review and assistance from a panel of prominent physicians and architects.
Dr. Meg Sears says there are high costs to society if people with sensitivities
are not cared for, and workplace environmental quality affects workers’
productivity, health and attendance. She adds that improving the environmental
quality of the workplace is an economically sound decision, as well as the best
option for workers’ health. The full report, “The Medical Perspective on
Environmental Sensitivities,” is available online by clicking
here.
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