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. 2011 Apr 27;119(8):1170–1175. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1003064

Table 5.

Evidence-based pediatric environmental health resources for health care practitioners.a

Organization/program Description Contact information Funding source
Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics: Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) (2006) 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 http://www.aoec.org/PEHSU.htm 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) Provides description and clinical guidelines for addressing common pediatric environmental health topics https://www.nfaap.org/netforum/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?site=nf.aap.org&webcode=aapbks_productdetail&key=17837ee5-f0fd-4486-9bcc-64f986b0f703 American Academy of Pediatrics
National Environmental Education Foundation: Pediatric Environmental History Initiative (2011) Provides numerous resources on environmental education, including handouts on taking a pediatric environmental health history http://www.neefusa.org/health/PEHI/index.htm 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) 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 http://www.psr.org/resources/pediatric-toolkit.html#what 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.