Promotores, Community Health Workers and Environmental Health
The Western States PEHSU, in collaboration with the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), has been working with Promotores de Salud and community health workers to increase awareness about reproductive environmental health and children’s environmental health issues. As part of our outreach to Promotores, we have started an environmental health newsletter that addresses a different environmental health problem every month. The newsletter is in English and Spanish.
You can also view some of the educational materials on preventing childhood leukemia and other diseases that we have developed and used in our work with Promotores on our pages Improving Environmental Health Literacy in Young Adults and Childhood Leukemia and the Environment.
Past Newsletters
- PFAS and Our Health || Las PFAS y nuestra salud
- Pesticides || Plaguicidas
- What Can We Do About Increasing rates of Childhood Cancer? ||¿Qué podemos hacer sobre el aumento en las tasas de cáncer infantil?
- Childhood Cancer is Increasing || El cáncer infantil va en aumento
- Allergies || Alergias
- Dust || Polvo
- Heavy Metals in Baby Foods & Fruit Juices || Metales pesados en comidas para bebés y jugos de fruta
- Arsenic: What is it and How Can It Affect Us? || El arsénico: ¿Qué es y cómo nos puede afectar?
- The Importance of Ventilation and Air Filtration in Reducing the Spread of Infectious Disease in Schools and at Home || La importancia de la ventilación y de la filtración del aire para reducir la propagación de enfermedades infecciosas en escuelas y hogares
- Extreme Weather and Pregnancy: What Promotores and Community Health Workers Can Do || El cambio climático y el embarazo Lo que pueden hacer los promotores y trabajadores de salud comunitaria
- Extreme Weather and Pregnancy: What Are the Risks? || El cambio climático y el embarazo ¿Cuáles son los riesgos?
- Drinking Water (Pt. 2) || El agua potable: Qué contamina el agua y cómo protegerse
- Drinking Water (Pt. 1) || El agua potable: ¿De dónde viene?
- Wildfire Smoke || El humo de incendio forestal y la salud infantil
- Air Pollutants || Contaminantes aéreos: Qué saber y cómo mantenerse a salvo
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals || Sustancias químicas que alteran el sistema endocrino
- Safer Disinfectant Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic || Uso más seguro de desinfectantes durante la pandemia de COVID-19
- Flame Retardants || ¡Apague los retardantes de llama y promueva la salud!
- Lead || El plomo y sus efectos sobre su salud
- Bisphenols and Phthalates || Bisfenoles y ftalatos