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CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Training Package for Health Care
Providers Improving the capacity to diagnose,
prevent and manage paediatric diseases linked to
the environment

• A growing number of diseases in children from
  rural and urban areas are linked to unsafe,
  degraded environments. However, many health care
  providers are unable to recognize, assess and
  manage environmentally-related diseases in
  children.
• How should this problem be addressed?
• Enabling those in the front line - the health
  professionals dealing with children and
  adolescents' health - to recognize and assess
  diseases linked to, or triggered by environmental
  factors. Paediatricians, family doctors, nurses,
  primary and other health care workers should be
  trained on the relationships between children's
  health and the environment through the use of
  harmonized training materials. These are adapted
  to the specific needs of countries and
  professional groups.
• What are the benefits of training health care
  providers?
• Increased understanding about the influence of
  environmental factors on childrens health
• Improved diagnosis and management of health and
  developmental effects
• Capacity to discuss environmental risks with
  patients, parents, educators and the media
• Advocacy skills for sensitizing decision-makers
  about high priority issues for action
• Enhanced potential for research
• What is the WHO Training Package for Health Care
  Providers?
• A collection of over 40 modules with
  internationally harmonized information and
  peer-reviewed materials to enable health care
  workers to be trained, and also to become
  trainers of their peers and colleagues. The
  modules include extensive notes and references,
  and case studies. These will be supported by
  self-evaluation tools, backed up by manuals and
  guidelines. A selected team of experienced
  professionals from over 15 countries, the
  International Pediatric Association (IPA),
  Children's Health, Environment, and Safety
  Training (CHEST) and selected NGOs are
  participating in its preparation.
• What issues are covered?
• The special vulnerability of children to
  physical, chemical and biological environmental
  threats
• The health and developmental effects of
  specific chemical, physical and biological
  hazards (e.g. pesticides, persistent toxic
  pollutants POPs- , lead, arsenic, radiation,
  noise, moulds, other) present in specific
  settings (e.g. home and surroundings, school,
  recreation areas, workplace, fields, other)
• Sources, routes and mechanisms of exposure
  (contaminants in air, water, food, cosmetics,
  objects, toys, medical devices, that may be
  inhaled, ingested or absorbed)

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List of Training Modules
I. CHILDREN ARE NOT LITTLE ADULTS
1) Why children (Finalized)
2) Children are not little adults (Finalized)
3) The paediatric environmental and health history (Finalized)
4) Global change and children (Draft)
II. SPECIFIC EXPOSURES AND EFFECTS IN CHILDREN
5) Outdoor air pollution (Finalized)
6) Indoor air pollution (Finalized)
7) Pesticides (Finalized)
8) Lead (Finalized)
9) Mercury (Draft)
10) Other heavy metals (CHEST)
11) Household and consumer products (CHEST)
12) Noise (Draft)
13) Solid and toxic waste (Draft)
14) Water (Finalized)
15) Sanitation and hygiene (Draft)
16) Food safety (Draft)
17) Children and chemicals (Draft)
18) Industrial chemicals (CHEST)
19) POPs (Finalized)
20) SHTS (CHEST)
21) Mycotoxins, plants, fungi and derivates
22) Envenomations
23) Injuries (WHO-EURO)
24) Traffic (WHO-EURO)
25) Ionising and non.ionising radiations (Draft)
26) Occupational risks (WHO-EURO)
27) Extreme social/conflict situations
III. SPECIFIC ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS AND SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT
28) Respiratory diseases (Draft)
29) Childhood cancer (Draft)
30) Allergies (CHEST)
31) ) Infectious diseases
32) Immune disorders
33) Neurobehavioural and developmental disorders (CHEST)
34) Endocrine disorders and reproductive health effects
35) Teratogenicity (CHEST)
36) Hematological diseases
37) Case studies
V. TOWARDS THE PROTECTION OF CEH
37) Risk communication (CHEST)
38) Epidemiology risk assessment (CHEST)
39) Towards the protection of CEH- International national agendas
VI. PROPOSED NEW TOPICS
40) Bio-monitoring and Environmental monitoring
41) Breast milk contaminants
42) Fetal exposures