This training explores the environmental contributions to childhood cancer and prevention strategies.
This document addresses arsenic exposure, its sources (such as contaminated water and certain foods), health effects, and preventive strategies to minimize risk. It emphasizes the importance of testing water sources and being aware of dietary intake.
This factsheet outlines the hazards of asbestos exposure, commonly found in older building materials. It details health risks like lung diseases, identifies potential asbestos-containing materials, and advises on safe handling and abatement procedures.
This document examines the presence of contaminants like heavy metals in baby food, potential health impacts on infants, and recommendations for parents to reduce exposure. It suggests diversifying diets, organic produce, and choosing products tested for contaminants.
This factsheet focuses on Bisphenol A (BPA) envionmental exposures, a chemical used in plastics and resins. It discusses sources of BPA exposure, associated health concerns, and tips to limit contact, such as using BPA-free products and avoiding microwaving plastics.
This poster illustrates steps to break the chain of infection and prevent the spread of diseases in community settings.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) Environmental Exposure: This factsheet highlights the dangers of carbon monoxide—a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning fuels—and offers preventive measures such as installing CO detectors and ensuring proper ventilation to prevent poisoning.
This document provides an overview of health risks from chemical exposures in everyday environments, with a focus on prevention strategies and safer alternatives.
This brochure provides an overview of the connections between environmental exposures and childhood cancer, along with prevention tips for families.
This document addresses topics related to pediatric environmental health, such as the impact of environmental exposures on children’s health, strategies for prevention, and recent research findings in this field.
This report summarizes the achievements, initiatives, and future goals of the POCES program for the year 2024.
This factsheet offers recommendations for choosing safer cleaning and household products to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals.
This poster highlights the environmental pollution cycle and suggests strategies to reduce its effects.
Consumer Products: This document discusses potential chemical hazards in everyday consumer products, such as hormone disruptors, advising the use of safer alternatives and providing resources to make informed choices to reduce exposure to harmful substances.
This document explores that while maternal smoking during pregnancy can lead to premature birth, birth defects, or miscarriage, paternal smoking before conception can increase the risk of childhood leukemia and cancer-causing DNA changes in offspring.
This document explains how air filtration devices can improve indoor air quality and reduce exposure to harmful particles.
This handout offers guidance on constructing a DIY air purifier using a box fan and air filters. It includes step-by-step instructions, materials needed, and safety tips to improve indoor air quality, especially during events like wildfires.
Dust: This factsheet addresses the health risks associated with household dust, which can contain harmful contaminants, and recommends frequent cleaning practices to minimize exposure, especially for children.
This document provides educational activities for healthcare workers to teach families about reducing childhood cancer risks from environmental exposures.
This factsheet highlights the health risks of endocrine-disrupting chemicals and provides guidance on reducing exposure in daily life.
This factsheet discusses the disproportionate environmental health burdens faced by marginalized communities and advocates for improved policies and protections.
This document outlines objectives for improving environmental health awareness and practices within communities.
An environmental history form designed to assist healthcare providers in assessing patients’ exposure to various environmental hazards, aiding in the identification of potential health risks linked to environmental factors.
This resource explains the main routes of environmental exposure—ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact—and provides strategies to minimize risks across different settings.
This PDF provides a fact sheet highlighting the impacts of extreme weather on children’s health and offers actionable prevention strategies for healthcare providers, educators, and communities.
This document highlights the health impacts of extreme weather, such as heat stress and air pollution, and emphasizes the need for mitigation and adaptation strategies to protect vulnerable populations.
This document provides quick, evidence-based answers to common questions about environmental health risks and mitigation strategies.
This factsheet examines the use of PBDEs as flame retardants, their potential health impacts, and tips to reduce exposure in homes and workplaces.
Food and Water contamination: This document explains how nitrates from fertilizers, pesticides and preservatives can contaminate food and water, posing health risks to babies and suggests testing water sources in certain circumstances, and dietary precautions to reduce exposure.
This document illustrates that, between 1988 and 2012, the incidence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) among Latino children in California increased by 35%, surpassing rates in non-Latino White children, with environmental pollution and potential genetic factors contributing to this disparity.
This glossary defines key terms related to environmental health, green cleaning, and chemical safety.
This factsheet highlights the benefits of green cleaning practices as part of integrated pest management to reduce chemical exposure.
This PowerPoint presentation provides practical information on maintaining clean and safe early care environments using less hazardous practices and products to protect young children and staff from infectious diseases.
This checklist provides guidelines for identifying and mitigating environmental health risks at home or in childcare settings.
This comprehensive curriculum provides tools and strategies for promoting environmental health in early childhood education settings.
This document emphasizes the importance of proper handwashing in preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
This factsheet provides guidelines for communicating chemical hazards in early childhood education settings.
This document highlights the importance of proper ventilation for maintaining healthy indoor air quality.
This poster highlights how to select safer pesticide options as part of an integrated pest management plan.
This guide explains how to perform a proper user seal check for respirators to ensure effective protection.
This factsheet provides guidelines for selecting pest management professionals that prioritize safety and effective pest control methods such as integrated pest management (IPM).
This document offers instructions for properly labeling cleaning containers to ensure safety and compliance with regulations.
This factsheet explains how to read and understand cleaning and disinfectant product labels to ensure safe and effective use.
This poster provides step-by-step guidance on understanding pesticide labels to ensure safe and effective use.
This document provides guidance on mask and respirator use for children and pregnant individuals during wildfire smoke events.
This document provides tips for minimizing the spread of infectious diseases in home environments.
This factsheet explores the benefits and potential contaminants in human milk, offering recommendations for safer consumption to protect both infant and maternal health.
Particles and Nitrogen Oxides Environmental Exposure: This factsheet discusses the health impacts of particulate matter and nitrogen oxides from combustion processes, offering strategies to monitor air quality and reduce personal exposure.
This document provides health professionals with guidance on addressing the acute health impacts of wildfires.
This serves as a comprehensive toolkit for early care and education programs, detailing strategies to prevent and manage pest problems through a combination of prevention, monitoring, record-keeping, and control methods, while minimizing the use of hazardous chemicals.
This factsheet provides tips on effectively managing ant infestations using safe, integrated pest management practices.
This document provides strategies for early care and education programs to manage ant infestations safely, emphasizing prevention, sanitation, and non-chemical methods to minimize children’s exposure to harmful pesticides.
This factsheet provides strategies for identifying and managing mold issues in indoor environments as part of an integrated pest management approach.
This document details safe and effective mosquito control methods that align with integrated pest management principles.
This factsheet provides strategies for managing yellowjacket infestations safely and effectively using integrated pest management principles.
This document serves as an introduction to environmental health concepts, focusing on understanding and mitigating health risks with preventative strategies such as integrated pest management (IPM).
Emphasizing integrate pest management (IPM), this document compiles key resources for understanding and addressing environmental health risks associated with pest control in various contexts including early childcare education facilities.
This graphic emphasizes the dangers of household dust contaminated with toxic chemicals, providing practical tips to reduce exposure and protect children’s health.
This document provides comprehensive information on the sources of lead exposure, its health effects, and strategies for prevention, emphasizing the importance of public health measures to reduce lead-related risks.
This poster highlights the risks of PCBs in schools and provides steps for safe management and mitigation.
This document provides guidance on mask and respirator use for children and pregnant individuals during wildfire smoke events.
Mercury: this factsheet overviews various food and environmental sources of mercury and key steps to reduce mercury exposures.
This document discusses the health impacts of mold exposure in homes and provides tips for identifying, removing, and preventing mold growth.
This document outlines the risks of nitrate contamination in food and water, especially for infants, and provides steps for testing and reducing exposure.
This factsheet provides strategies for cleaning and disinfecting without the use of harmful chemicals.
This factsheet focuses on pollutants affecting outdoor air quality, their health impacts, and actions individuals and communities can take to reduce exposure.
This document details the sources and health effects of PAHs, chemicals released during combustion, and suggests measures to limit contact.
This factsheet discusses the dangers of particulate matter in air pollution, its effects on respiratory and cardiovascular health, and ways to mitigate exposure.
This factsheet discusses the health risks of pesticide exposure, particularly for children, and offers tips for reducing exposure in homes, gardens, and food.
This factsheet provides essential information on pest management, emphasizing safe and effective practices.
This document highlights the widespread use of PFAS (Per- or poly-fluoroalkyl substances) chemicals, their persistence in the environment, and health concerns, with advice on minimizing exposure.
This factsheet outlines the sources and health risks of phthalates, commonly found in plastics and personal care products, and provides recommendations for avoidance.
This document examines the environmental and health impacts of plastic use, focusing on microplastics and chemical leaching, with strategies to reduce exposure.
This document provides an overview of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), their health risks, and ways to limit exposure.
This document covers the history, health risks, and current issues related to Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and furans, advising on strategies to avoid exposure.
This document provides comprehensive guidelines to help California schools prepare for and respond to wildfire smoke events, including strategies for maintaining indoor air quality, communication protocols, and recommendations for student and staff safety during such incidents.
This factsheet discusses radon, a radioactive gas linked to lung cancer, and provides guidance on testing and mitigating radon levels in homes.
This document provides a detailed list of resources and references for effective green cleaning and sanitization practices.
This document lists the references used in the Kids Cancer Journal, providing evidence-based information on environmental health.
This document compiles references for environmental health topics and resources to support research and education.
This document provides a comprehensive list of references used for the environmental health website.
This comprehensive guide explores the link between childhood cancer and environmental exposures, offering prevention strategies.
This infographic provides practical tips on safely disinfecting spaces to reduce the spread of infectious diseases.
This factsheet provides guidance on choosing safer disinfecting methods to protect health and the environment during COVID-19.
This factsheet provides guidelines for effective and safe disinfection practices during COVID-19 to minimize health risks.
This document provides information on maintaining a healthy school environment through safer cleaning and pest management practices during COVID-19.
This document explains how to sanitize spaces safely and effectively while minimizing exposure to harmful chemicals.
This factsheet discusses the health risks associated with secondhand smoke exposure. It highlights the dangers to both children and adults, provides statistics on exposure rates, and suggests measures to reduce involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke.
This document addresses health risks from contaminated soil, especially for children and gardeners, and offers tips for safe gardening practices.
This poster highlights steps to protect health and improve air quality during and after wildfire events.
This infographic provides tips for protecting children during wildfire smoke events, including air filtration and mask use.
This document explains how to perform a seal check on respirators and masks to ensure effective protection during wildfire smoke events.
This infographic explains the impact of wildfires on air quality and provides tips for staying safe during smoke events.
This poster emphasizes strategies for keeping outdoor spaces pest-free using integrated pest management techniques.
This factsheet highlights the benefits of adopting green cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting programs in schools and workplaces.
This resource explores how urban planning and the built environment impact health, emphasizing the importance of access to green spaces, clean air, and safe infrastructure.
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for organizing community walks to identify and address local environmental health concerns.
This document outlines the requirements and recommendations under the Healthy Schools Act to ensure a safer environment for children.
This document explores why children are more susceptible to environmental hazards due to their developing systems and behaviors, offering guidelines for enhanced protection.
This poster provides actionable tips for using eco-friendly cleaning and disinfecting products effectively.