Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics: Pediatric
Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) (2006) |
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Made up of professionally trained environmental health experts,
including physicians; provide evidence-based education and consultations
to health care providers, state and local governments, and individual
families |
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http://www.aoec.org/PEHSU.htm |
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry |
American Academy of Pediatrics: Pediatric Environmental Health
handbook (Green Book) (2003) |
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Provides description and clinical guidelines for addressing common
pediatric environmental health topics |
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https://www.nfaap.org/netforum/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?site=nf.aap.org&webcode=aapbks_productdetail&key=17837ee5-f0fd-4486-9bcc-64f986b0f703 |
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American Academy of Pediatrics |
National Environmental Education Foundation: Pediatric Environmental
History Initiative (2011) |
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Provides numerous resources on environmental education, including
handouts on taking a pediatric environmental health history |
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http://www.neefusa.org/health/PEHI/index.htm |
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Chartered by Congress in 1990 under the National Environmental Education
Act to advance environmental knowledge and action |
Physicians for Social Responsibility: Pediatric Environmental Health
Toolkit (2009) |
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Provides evidence-based environmental health tool kits for health care
providers to use; health care providers can earn CME credit for taking
the tool-kit course |
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http://www.psr.org/resources/pediatric-toolkit.html#what |
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Physicians for Social Responsibility, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3)
advocacy organization that won the Nobel peace prize in 1985 and is
funded by private individual donations as well as charitable group
donations |
CME, Continuing Medical Education. aTable adapted
from J.M. Braun and R. Hauser (2011), “Bisphenol A and children’s
health” (Curr Opin Pediatr 23(2):233–239), with permission from
Lippincott, Walters, and Wilkins. |