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Heat and Health Initiative Releases Clinical Guidance to Protect …

WEBThe Heat and Health Initiative has released Clinical Guidance to help health care providers keep at-risk individuals such as children with asthma safe when temperatures rise. This guidance is the first nationally available information for healthcare and public health professionals to protect the population, including those more sensitive …

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Climate Change and Children’s Health and Well-Being in the …

WEBClimate change-related impacts in childhood can have lifelong consequences due to effects on learning, physical health, chronic disease, and other complications. This national-scale, multi-sector EPA report quantifies projected health effects associated with extreme heat, air quality, changing seasons, flooding, and infectious diseases.

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Key Federal Programs to Reduce Childhood Lead

WEBKey Federal Programs to Reduce Childhood Lead. Reducing lead exposure in children, particularly in minority and low-income children who often are disparately exposed, is a priority of the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children. This report comprises the efforts of nine federal departments/agencies

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Task Force Publishes 2024-2028 Priority Areas

WEBThe President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children have set priorities for 2024-2028. This comprehensive roadmap outlines initiatives across four key areas: With short- and long-term actions addressing data gaps; regulations and policies; communication and engagement; and interagency coordination …

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Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education

WEBIn 2017, ATSDR incorporated Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education (CSPECE) as a key activity in its Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to Reduce Environmental Exposure (APPLETREE) Program, a cooperative agreement program that supports 25 state health departments. Funded states will implement programs to assess …

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Summer Safety Resources for Children

WEBMay 23-29, 2021 is Health and Safe Swimming Week. The Task Force has a number of resources for parents and others to help ensure that children stay safe while spending additional time in swimming pools and other bodies of water during the summer months. Similarly, warmer weather provides more time for children to be outdoors, but extreme …

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HUD Smoke-Free Public Housing Rule

WEBThe HUD Smoke-Free Public Housing Regulation requires all PHAs to restrict smoking in low-income, conventional public housing buildings. The rule prohibits the use of all lit tobacco products and hookahs (water pipes) inside all public housing dwelling units, common areas, and PHA administrative offices, and in all areas within 25 feet of such

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Asthma Disparities

WEBThe purpose of the Asthma Disparities Subcommittee (formerly Asthma Disparities Working Group) is to address preventable factors that impact disparities in the burden of asthma in poor and minority children relative to their peers. In May 2012, the group combined the efforts of federal agencies to launch the Coordinated Federal Action …

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Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and …

WEBThese goals are: Goal 1: Reduce Children’s Exposure to Lead Sources. Goal 2: Identify Lead-Exposed Children and Improve Their Health Outcomes. Goal 3: Communicate More Efectively with Stakeholders. Goal 4: Support and Conduct Critical Research to Inform Eforts to Reduce Lead Exposures and Related Health Risks.

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Climate, Emergencies, and Disasters

WEBThe purpose of the Subcommittee on Climate, Emergencies, and Disasters is to provide a convening and coordinating role to empower federal partners to collectively assess and address gaps and inequities in health protection and research related to children and pregnant/lactating mothers that results or arises from climate change, …

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Task Force Principals Meet

WEBOn October 28, 2021, the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (Task Force) convened a full meeting of the Task Force Principals from across the federal government. Task Force co-chairs Michael Regan, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Xavier Becerra, Secretary, Department of

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Featured Resource

WEBFeatured Resources are snapshots of reports, tools, websites, videos, training, apps, and other items developed by the Task Force and by federal departments and agencies that may be relevant to address children’s environmental health issues. Featured Resources also may include those whose development has been federally funded or supported

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President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and …

WEBly Disparities. times the Additionally, rate of emergency childhood asthma minority minorities million children children aged 0 to 17 years in the United States have as suffering hospitalizations a greater burden of the disease. Decades experiencing for asthma approximately as children. and other communities.

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President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and …

WEBPresident’s Task betterment of children’s point for on environmental the Environmental government health and Health Risks and to to Children departments in Executive act engages who have expressed interest environmental in participating, to coordinate to address of. environmental In October 2021, stressors Force co- chairs that threaten the

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Asthma and the Environment

WEBThe Growing Problem of Asthma in Children. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease breathlessness, wheezing, coughing, chest exacerbations or attacks. The severityof Both the frequency and severity and by reducing exposure to the environmental. For the past 15 years, an epidemic of asthma States.

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Facts About Crypto and Swimming Pools

WEBCrypto is one of the most common causes of recreational water illness (disease caused by germs spread through pool water) in the United States and can cause prolonged diarrhea (for 1–2 weeks). It can make anyone sick, but certain groups of people are more likely to become seriously ill when infected with Crypto:

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