Add an interactive tool to your outreach toolkit: Tox Town
Tox Town uses neighborhood scenes, along with color, graphics, sounds, and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public’s health.
Tox Town’s target audience is high school, college and graduate students, educators, and the interested public.
Tox Town®, a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, is now available in both English, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov and en español, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/espanol. Visitors can learn in English or in Spanish about environmental health concerns and over 30 toxic chemicals in these imaginary neighborhoods: a City, Farm, Town, US-Mexico Border, and Port. Tox Town en español identifies Spanish-language information in a subject area – environmental health and toxicology – that currently has few Web resources. To supplement the limited Web resources in Spanish, nearly 100 pages of background information describing environmental health concerns were translated and reviewed by a team of bilingual health information specialists.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I see how this can be a useful tool. I work for a family practice office in Orange County and I’m going to show this to the doctor and see if I can encourage him to add this as an available resource to our website. Thanks for the heads up.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Thanks, ELT Nurse! Tox Town can be a great resource for educating patients. Please contact us, or your local Regional Network Office of the National Libraries of Medicine (http://nnlm.gov/sea/) if you have questions about Tox Town.