Stopping Disease Before It Starts: The Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit and Prescriptions for Prevention
Empower Your Community with Help from the PEHSUs
Do you get questions from community members about environmental health topics such as PFAS, heavy metals in baby foods, or air pollution? Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units, aka “the PEHSUs” are here to help!
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The PEHSU’s team of doctors, nurses and public health professionals at University of California San Francisco’s Western States PEHSU created the Pediatric Environmental Health e-Toolkit for Prevention, a free mobile-friendly online resource for health providers and professionals. Search children’s health topics by chemicals (i.e., lead, mold, or VOCs) or exposure source (i.e., water, air, soil). Additionally, access environmental health prevention strategies grouped by age and key concepts like climate change and environmental justice to quickly build foundational knowledge.
Prescriptions for Prevention
Each topic in the Toolkit also has companion Prescriptions for Prevention. These online handouts available in English and Spanish cover health effects and best practices to reduce environmental exposures. Each is easy to read; has simple, low, or no cost do’s and don'ts; and links to national level resources. In addition, some Prescriptions have accompanying animated videos, also available in both English and Spanish.
Thirty environmental hazard and exposure Prescriptions for Prevention are being integrated into local electronic medical systems (EMS). If you would like to integrate these materials into your electronic medical system, contact: pehsu@ucsf.edu
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