The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
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
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) announced that child care providers and other early learning facilities can...
Mar 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe...
The Children’s Environmental Health Network is accepting nominations of young leaders, ages 10-21, making an impact in their...
Feb 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
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 […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) announced that child care providers and other early learning facilities can now apply online to become Eco-Healthy Child Care® endorsed. CEHN also upgraded their website to include a map of endorsed facilities making it easier for families to find an Eco-Healthy Child Care® early learning facility within their local community. […]
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe more air and eat more food than adults, making them particularly vulnerable to environmental public health hazards. And even low levels of toxic exposures can affect children’s physical and mental development. While everyone suffers the […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network is accepting nominations of young leaders, ages 10-21, making an impact in their communities. The Nsedu Obot Witherspoon (NOW) Youth Leadership Award honors a young person who has demonstrated exceptional environmental health leadership — efforts to protect human health, especially of our most vulnerable populations. Nominations are due...
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