New Website and Environmental History Tools for Pediatric Health Care
Providers

The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) is
pleased to announce its new website for pediatric health care providers.
The site is an on-line resource portal with user-friendly tools,
including a screening and a comprehensive environmental history form,
and an environmental history taking primer.

PEHI The Pediatric Environmental History Screening Form is a one-page
form designed to be administered by the primary health care provider in
less than five minutes in order to capture most of the common
environmental exposures to children. It can be administered regularly
during well-child exams as well as to assess whether an environmental
exposure plays a role in a child's symptoms. If a positive response is
given to one or more of the screening questions, the primary care
provider can use the Additional Categories and Questions to Supplement
The Screening Environmental History to explore further. The Pediatric
Environmental History Primer provides background information on issues
included in the form and recommendations health care providers can make
to families to control or eliminate the hazards in their environment.

These tools are based on medical literature and current best practices,
and were developed in consultation with an expert advisory group,
chaired by James R. Roberts MD, MPH. Other members of the Advisory
Committee are Sophie Balk, MD; Ruth Etzel MD, PhD; Joel Forman, MD;
Christine Johnson, MD; Lillian Mood, RN, MPH; Bonnie Rogers, DrPH, FAAN.

NEETF's Pediatric Environmental History Initiative is a multi-year
project to incorporate environmental history taking into the clinical
practice of pediatricians and nurses. The Initiative is funded in part
by The New York Community Trust.

Please share these resources with your colleagues and any others who
might also be interested in pediatric environmental history taking.

For more information, please contact Rebecca Love at love@... or
202-261-6475.

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