• The University of Massachusetts, Lowell will conduct seven workshops in the New England states targeting health professionals, especially nurses who work with low income, refugee and minority children.

• The National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, Md. will increase the capacity of public health nurses about pediatric environmental health risks and how to incorporate environmental health into their home assessments. See their training course and training materials on their website.

• Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility will implement the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit into the medical curriculum in 5 states in the United States. See the toolkit, resources and an outreach pediatric toolkit on their website.

• Northeastern Ohio Universities, College of Medicine, Rootstown will provide internet training courses in five Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Poland and Slovakia).

• International Pediatric Association, Boston is developing a virtual International Health Leadership Institute to reduce and diagnose environmental health conditions in children.

• National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, Washington, D.C. will develop a Faculty Champion program to integrate pediatric environmental health into medical and nursing curricula in the United States. also http://www.neetf.org/health

Resources on Children's Health and the Environment

• The Boston University Superfund Basic Research Program conducts and communicates research on the impacts of improperly managed hazardous wastes. They study the effects of exposures to substances commonly encountered in hazardous waste disposal on reproduction and development in humans and wildlife.
  

• Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an affiliation of organizations working together to protect children's health from environmental contaminants.

• Children's Environmental Health World Wide Web Resource Sampler offers a comprehensive list of resources related to children and their environment. From the site there are links to the Environmental Health and Toxicology Database, Chemical Information Database, etc.

• Children’s Environmental Health: Online Resources for Health Care Providers provides a list of resources that was developed as an informal starting point for health care providers to learn more about pediatric environmental health.
• Information on the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU's). PEHSU's have been developed to provide education and consultation services for health professionals, public health professionals and others about children's environmental health.

• The U.S. CDC's National Center for Environmental Health strives to promote health and quality of life by preventing or controlling those diseases or deaths that result from interactions between people and their environment.

• The work by the U.S. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities includes identifying the causes of and preventing birth defects. It promotes the health of babies, children, and adults and enhance the potential for full, productive living.

• The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment. Their Web Site provides information on the Network, children's environmental health and links to sources of information and resources in the field.

• The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment is a membership organization for health professionals. It works to protect the environment in order to protect human health. Recently, CAPE has put its Children's Environmental Health Project online. The project originated with the idea that physicians need access to information about the effects of the environment on children's health.

• The Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine is responsible for information resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in minority health.

• The Case Studies in Environmental Medicine are a series of self-instructional publications designed to increase the primary care provider's knowledge of hazardous substances in the environment and to aid in the evaluation of potentially exposed patients. Continuing medical education credits, continuing nursing education units, and continuing education units are offered by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in support of this series. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/CSEM/csem.html
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• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency supports efforts to expand the integration of environmental health in to health care provider education and practice. The public looks more and more to their primary health care providers to provide environmental health information, including diagnosis, treatment, and counseling on prevention strategies. However, these providers are often not equipped with the specific knowledge needed to effectively assist their patients in addressing environmental health issues. Many federal agencies are engaged in developing partnerships with the health care community to integrate their agency's environmental health messages into educational and practice settings.