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from environmental hazards

a healthy environment
for all children

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Full Training Manual on Pediatric Environmental Health

Introduction
Provides a brief overview of pediatric environmental health and outlines the core competencies, both knowledge and skills, that health care providers-in-training should acquire in this emerging field.

Faculty Training Guide
Focuses on curriculum development and evaluation. Assists faculty to integrate pediatric environmental health into training program curricula.

Strategies and Tactics for Teaching
Designed to make the teaching experience effective and enjoyable for teacher and student. Offers a discussion of how adults learn best, as well as suggestions for how to capture and create learning opportunities when teaching about pediatric environmental health.

Advocacy for Pediatric Environmental Health
Designed to help faculty train students to identify appropriate areas for advocacy, plan and execute advocacy efforts, and locate resources to support those efforts. Includes an extensive case study and suggested assignments for students.

A Developmental Approach to Pediatric Environmental Health
Provides a framework for the study of pediatric environmental health by examining how children's exposure and susceptibility to environmental toxicants varies with their developmental stage. Includes discussion questions.

Environmental History-Taking
Designed to assist clinicians to incorporate questions about environmental exposures into history-taking. Includes discussion questions, Ten Tips for Teaching Environmental History-Taking, a Home Audit Questionnaire form to be completed by the clinician or parent, and a brief Guide for Parents.

Epidemiology
Provides a primer for teaching health care professionals basic epidemiologic concepts critical to pediatric environmental health. Includes a strategy for reading epidemiologic literature, as well as suggested assignments for students.

Childhood Lead Toxicity
Addresses the common sources of exposure to lead; routes of poisoning; the biochemical, subclinical and clinical effects of lead poisoning; and the main components of diagnosis and treatment of childhood lead poisoning. Includes a case study and suggested exercises for students.

Metal Toxicity in Children
Addresses the common sources of exposure to heavy metals; routes of uptake into the body; symptoms of clinical toxicity; and treatment options. Includes several case studies and a comprehensive table of metals (sources, clinical manifestations, and treatment methods.)

Air Pollution
Reviews the current information about hazards found in the air that children breathe. Includes several case studies, discussion questions for students (with an answer key), and recommendations for parents.

Children and Solvents
Reviews the sources of solvents in a child's environment, the known and suspected health effects of solvents, treatment, and prevention of exposure. Includes several case studies.

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