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4/10/2012 10:02:28 AM EST
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Environmental Impacts on Children's Health
children's health, environmental impacts, PEHS, EPA
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The following is a great resource, that I thought should be shared, concerning a specialty unit dedicated to the education and care of children whose health has been ill-effected by various environmental impacts. The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHS) are units of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These PEHS units are located in each EPA region in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
PEHS units were established by the EPA “to ensure that children and communities have access to, usually at no cost, special medical knowledge and resources for children faced with a health risk due to a natural or human-made environmental hazard.” The professionals working within these PEHS units provide training for medical professionals, provide information to community groups like schools and other public facilities, and “provide quality medical consultation for health professionals, parents, caregivers and patients.”
You can access the PEHS units by going to a central website: www.aoec.org/PEHSU.htm . Once there you can view all of the specific activities of these units and locate a professional in your area through their network of experts in children’s environmental health. Some of the topics that are covered include: where to find these PEHS units; children and flood/hurricanes; health risks for children during and after a wildfire; and, a list of clinic directories.
Keep in mind that these professionals are not building science experts. You will still want to coordinate any health related indoor environmental assessments with both your doctor and Council-certified Indoor Environmental Consultant (CIEC). But, this resource can be invaluable when it comes to understanding where to go for direction in relation to your children’s health in relation to environmental elements.
SOLUTIONS Indoor Environmental Consulting (IEC) has a long history of working with patients and doctors in an effort to coordinate treatment efforts of doctors to patients. By understanding what conditions, relative to a doctor’s concern and patient’s health experiences, a child is being exposed to in the indoor environment, can go a long way in understanding the triggers causing the ill health effects and eliminating them.
For more information on how a CIEC can help you improve the indoor environmental quality of your structure, contact us here at SOLUTIONS IEC ( www.solutionsiec.com or 877-624-7185 x1) or a PEHS unit professional near you.
Learning all you can about how you can improve the indoor environment’s quality of air and cleanliness can go a long way in improving you and your family’s health. Stay tuned into our future newsletters for more resource information as they become available.
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