A Blueprint for Protecting Children's Environmental Health: An Urgent Call to Action
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The Blueprint emphasizes urgent action to make children's health a priority for the US, outlining the steps that are necessary for progress towards protecting children's environmental health, and for developing a solid foundation to support future commitments moving forward. It is a high-level resource that is available to assist leaders in communities and the children's environmental health field in prioritizing the needs of children.
(Children's Environmental Health Network)
America's Children and the Environment (ACE)
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Provides access to quantitative information from a variety of sources to show trends in levels of environmental contaminants in air, water, food, and soil; concentrations of contaminants measured in the bodies of mothers and children; and childhood diseases that may be influenced by environmental factors.
(Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))
America's Children and the Environment: A First view of Available Measures
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(Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))
Asthma (CDC)
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This site contains information on NCEH's Asthma Control Program for children and adolescents, asthma statistics, funding information, and a speaker's kit.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS)
Asthma (EPA)
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This site contains information on environmental triggers of asthma and other upper respiratory illnesses.
(Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))
Asthma (NCEH)
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This site contains links to numerous resources including a description of CDC's activities related to asthma control, asthma data, asthma resources from other organizations, and resources such as a speaker's kit on asthma.
(National Center for Environmental Health, CDC)
Asthma (NCHS)
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This site contains statistics on asthma and links to other resources on asthma.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS)
Asthma (NEEF)
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The Pediatric Asthma Initiative serves to integrate environmental management of asthma into pediatric medical and nursing education and practice through our "Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers" and other pediatric asthma resources
(National Environmental Education Foundation)
CDC Children's Environmental Health
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Data and information about children's environmental health issues including asthma, lead poisoning, cancer, developmental disabilities, and socioeconomic conditions.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS)
Child Health Care Quality Toolbox
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This online resource is intended to help state and local policymakers and program directors and staff answer questions about measuring health care performance in child health programs.
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS)
Children's Environmental Health
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This site contains a listing of Minnesota's Department of Health extensive programs on children's environmental health including exposure to lead, mercury, pesticides and other hazardous chemicals.
(Minnesota Department of Health)
Children's Environmental Health Center (CEHC)
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The Center for Children's Health and the Environment's mission is to promote the health of children by conducting environmental health and policy research. This site contains fact sheets, reports, testimony, and press releases on a variety of children's environmental health issues.
(Mount Sinai, School of Medicine)
Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
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CEHN is a national multidisciplinary project dedicated to protect the fetus and the child from environmental hazards and promote a healthy environment. This site provides an overview of children's environmental health issues, a Training Manual on Pediatric Environmental Health, and a resource guide of related programs, projects and organizations.
Children's Environmental Health Training Modules
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Training modules on CEH topics such as air pollution, lead, pesticides, among others.
(World Health Organization (WHO))
Children's Health Resources
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Articles and resources on children's environmental health from NIEHS' open access journal,Environmental Health Perspectives.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH)
Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education
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ATSDR created the Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education program to encourage thoughtful consideration about where to locate Early Childhood Education programs. It gives towns, cities, and states a framework to adopt practices that will make sure ECE programs are located away from chemical hazards.
(Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), CDC, HHS)
Council on Environmental Health
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The AAP's Council on Environmental Health focuses on issues relating to environmental health and toxic exposures. This site contains policy statements made by this Council including environmental tobacco smoke, blood lead level, and respiratory hazards for infants and children.
(American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP))
Don't Pollute My Future! The Impact of the Environment on Children's Health (2017)
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Report provides an analysis of the health impacts and mortality in children due to environmental exposures, interventions for select diseases, economic evaluations, and sustainable development goals which provide targets for reducing the disease burden in children from environmental risks.
(World Health Organization (WHO))
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program
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A program that will evaluate environmental exposures (physical, chemical, biological, social, behavioral, natural and built environments) on child health and development.
(National Institutes of Health (NIH), HHS)
Health Information on Asthma
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Information, fact sheets, and other publications for health professionals and the general public on asthma.
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH)
Inheriting a sustainable world: Atlas on children's health and the environment (2017)
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Publication provides a look at the continuing and emerging challenges to children's environmental health, mapping changes in major environmental hazards due to increasing urbanization, industrialization, globalization, and climate change, as well as efforts in the health sector to reduce children's environmental exposures.
(World Health Organization (WHO))
Kids Environment Kids Health
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A resource for kids, parents, and teachers to find fun and educational materials related to health, science, and the environment we live in today.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH)
MedlinePlus: Asthma in Children
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This site contains links to consumer health resources on asthma.
(National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH)
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
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NCBDDD seeks to promote optimal fetal, infant, and child development; prevent birth defects and childhood developmental disabilities; and enhance the quality of life and prevent secondary conditions among children, adolescents, and adults who are living with a disability. This site contains information on NCBDDD activities on the etiology and prevention of birth defects, including fetal alcohol syndrome and neural tube defects, and the role of environmental factors in children and youth with disabilities.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS)
Partner and Other Environmental Medicine Resources - Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units
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This site provides summaries of ATSDR child health programs, such as the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units, as well as links to Toxicology Profiles and Public Health Assessments.
(Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), CDC, HHS)
Pediatric Environment Health Toolkit
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This toolkit provides evidence-based overviews on environmental health hazards, guidance based on child age, examples of everyday environmental interactions for children, and steps clinicians and parents can take to decrease harmful exposure.
(Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU))
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU)
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PEHSU is an established network that has been developed to provide education and consultation for health professionals, public health professionals and others about the topic of children's environmental health.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
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Reference guides for health providers and health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health.
(Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Protecting Children's Environmental Health
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This site contains information on environmental factors in childhood cancers, developmental and neurological programs, and health effects of pesticides, metals and other hazardous substances. The site also focuses on current EPA activities in these areas on the local, state, federal, and international levels.
(Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))
The Children's Environmental Health Institute (CEHI)
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CEHI is a nonprofit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children. CEHI's primary mission is to foster collaborative initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations. The website provides information about the Learning and Developmental Disability Initiative, the Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment, and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.
WHO Children's Environmental Health
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This website contains WHO's work on children's environmental health, including national profiles, children's environmental health indicators, capacity building, and collaborative research efforts. The site also provides access to publications, statistics, and fact sheets on children's environmental health.
(World Health Organization (WHO))