The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Children’s Environmental Health Network is developing fact sheets that include indicators of environmental hazards,...
Dec 09, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In October 2018, NACCHO, along with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), the Association of State and Territorial...
Oct 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care was developed with input from child care professionals and lead prevention experts...
Oct 21, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As part of Children’s Health Month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 10, 2019 a proposed rule that...
Oct 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency, is pleased to announce that a new notice...
Aug 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day (CEH Day) in 2016 as a...
Aug 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
More than a quarter of homes in Maine were built before 1950, when lead paint was widely used. Lead in the blood of infants and...
Jul 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day in 2016 as a way to...
Jun 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), NACCHO is interested in learning about, promoting, and supporting policies and practices that address mental health and substance use disorder within local health department (LHD) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network is developing fact sheets that include indicators of environmental hazards, environmental exposure, and child health and development to provide an understanding of children’s environmental health at the state level. To date, three fact sheets have been completed, for Michigan, Minnesota, and North Carolina. Through this process, CEHN found...
In October 2018, NACCHO, along with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) began a collaborative project to address lead poisoning using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, informally referred to as the HiAP + Lead Collaborative.
The Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care was developed with input from child care professionals and lead prevention experts under the guidance of the Children’s Environmental Health Network, the National Center for Healthy Housing and the National Association of Family Child Care. This toolkit can help providers and even parents reduce lead hazards in their […]
As part of Children’s Health Month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 10, 2019 a proposed rule that significantly improves the actions that water systems must take to reduce lead in the nation’s drinking water. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the proposal at an event in Green Bay.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency, is pleased to announce that a new notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for its APPLETREE program has been published on www.Grants.gov. This new three-year ATSDR’s Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to Reduce Environmental Exposure (APPLETREE) cooperative agreement program will fund approximately...
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day (CEH Day) in 2016 as a way to raise awareness about how environmental exposures impact children’s health. It is also a day of action that can be used to mobilize individuals, families, organizations, and communities to champion, on behalf of all children, the right […]
More than a quarter of homes in Maine were built before 1950, when lead paint was widely used. Lead in the blood of infants and children can cause health and developmental problems and affect nearly every system in the body. Maine had required inspection of a child’s home if the child’s blood lead level went […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day in 2016 as a way to raise awareness about how environmental exposures impact children’s health. It is also a day of action that can be used to mobilize individuals, families, organizations, and communities to champion, on behalf of all children, the right to clean […]
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