Safe And Healthy Children S Environments

Author : Ingrid Crowther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0134663551

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Safe and Healthy Children's Environments by Ingrid Crowther Pdf

Designed for Health and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education courses offered in colleges and universities across the country. Safe and Healthy Children's Environments is distinctive in three ways: Safe and Healthy Children's Environments, Second Edition, aims to provide a valuable resource to caregivers of children to easily understand, access, and use information in meaningful ways to support the healthy development of all children. The second edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect current research and methods in caring for children to ensure health and well-being in modern learning environments. This text presents issues in health, safety, and nutrition in a way that keeps the child at the heart of each chapter. Working as both a learning and reference tool, this text is written to facilitate research while using clear and concise language.

Author : Ingrid Crowther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0131492942

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Safe and Healthy Children's Environments. Instructor's Manual with PowerPoints CD-ROM [electronic Resource] by Ingrid Crowther Pdf

Author : Howard Frumkin M.D.,Robert J. Geller M.D.,I. Leslie Rubin M.D.,Janice Nodvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199748209

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Safe and Healthy School Environments by Howard Frumkin M.D.,Robert J. Geller M.D.,I. Leslie Rubin M.D.,Janice Nodvin Pdf

Millions of children and adults across the nation spend their days in school buildings, and they need safe, healthy environments to thrive, learn, and succeed. This book explores the school environment using the methods and perspectives of environmental health science. Though environmental healht has long been understood to be an important factor in workplaces, homes, and communities, this is the first book to address the same basic concerns in schools. The editors are physicians and educators trained in pediatrics, occupational and environmental medicine, and medical toxicology, and the authors are experts in their fields drawn from across the United States and abroad. Each section of the book addresses a different concern facing schools today. In the first six sections, the various aspects of the school environment are examined. Chapters include the physical environment of the school, air quality issues, pest control, cleaning methods, food safety, safe designs of playgrounds and sports fields, crime and violence prevention, and transportation. In the last two sections, recommendations are made for school administrators on how to maximize the health of their schools. Appropriately evaluating the school environment, implementing strategies to address children and adults with disabilities, emphasizing health services, infectious disease prevention and recognition, and occupational health for faculty and staff are all addressed. The entire book is evidence-based, readable, generously illustrated, and practical. An indispensable resource for parents, school staff, administrators, government officials, and health professionals, this book is for anyone who cares about the health of our schools.

Author : Coralie Mathews
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Child care
ISBN : 0729537498

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Healthy Children by Coralie Mathews Pdf

Healthy Children: A Guide for Child Care 2nd edition examines the health needs of children attending child care settings. Child care professionals are advocates for children's rights, and good health is one of the basic rights of any child. Knowledge of health and related issues enables the child care professional to have a comprehensive understanding of how good health can be achieved for children and their families. The text addresses the new child care competencies developed by the Australian National Training Authority and provides the knowledge needed to achieve the competencies covered in each health-related unit. The wide range of topics covered will give students a broad understanding of each subject.

Author : Jenny Pronczuk-Garbino
Publisher : WHO
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241562927

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Children's Health and the Environment by Jenny Pronczuk-Garbino Pdf

"The manual ... is intended as an introductory resource tool for health professionals around the world, and especially in developing countries, who aim to increase their knowledge and understanding of children and environmental health."--P. vii.

Author : Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309166607

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Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth by Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health Pdf

Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309388573

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Parenting Matters by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children Pdf

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Author : Doug Farquhar,Glen Andersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Chidren
ISBN : IND:30000109151013

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Healthy Environment, Healthy Kids by Doug Farquhar,Glen Andersen Pdf

Recent research has found that children are particularly vulnerable to environmental hazards. Air and water pollution, environmental risks in the home, and toxics in food and drink affect children more than adults. This volume examines policies designed to protect children from environmental threats, identifies factors that influence their health, and investigates childhood diseases that are caused or affected by the environment. State and federal legislation also are reviewed.--Publisher's description.

Author : UNICEF-IRC
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789210019330

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Places and Spaces by UNICEF-IRC Pdf

Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Do children have clean water to drink? Do they have good-quality air to breathe? Are their homes free of lead and mould? How many children live in overcrowded homes? How many have access to green play spaces, safe from road traffic? Data show that a nation’s wealth does not guarantee a healthy environment. Far too many children are deprived of a healthy home, irreversibly damaging their current and future well-being. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and healthy environments, governments, policymakers, businesses and all stakeholders are called to act on a set of policy recommendations.

Author : Lucianne Licari,Nemer L.,Tamburlini G.,World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289013741

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Children's Health and Environment by Lucianne Licari,Nemer L.,Tamburlini G.,World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe Pdf

In June 2004, the 52 countries in the WHO European region agreed to adopt the Childrens Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe, setting out a framework for national policy implementation in relation to environmental risk factors and their effects on childrens health. This publication contains guidance on the development of national action plans suited to each countrys circumstances, priorities and resources, whilst still addressing region-wide environmental risk factors.

Author : Ruth A. Etzel,Philip J. Landrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197662526

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Textbook of Children's Environmental Health by Ruth A. Etzel,Philip J. Landrigan Pdf

With new and updated content on biodiversity and chemicals in food, Textbook of Children's Environmental Health, Second Edition remains the quintessential textbook for the study of the environmental hazards that cause disease in childre

Author : James Garbarino,Garry Sigman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441967916

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A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment by James Garbarino,Garry Sigman Pdf

It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children’s well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally. Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children’s lives, factors as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children’s rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to children’s development, including: War and natural disasters. Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning). The child obesity epidemic. Gun violence. Child slavery and trafficking. Toxic elements in contemporary culture. A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children’s lives.

Author : United States. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental toxicology
ISBN : 9780788175343

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Healthy Children - Toxic Environments by United States. Department of Health and Human Services Pdf

Author : David Satterthwaite,et al
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134172788

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The Environment for Children by David Satterthwaite,et al Pdf

Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the problems can be traced back to matters which can be treated straightforwardly and at relatively low cost - poor drinking water or food, or infectious diseases which can be controlled. This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. It also explains what can be done, by communities as well as governments and aid workers, to provide safe and healthy environments for children. The book looks at conditions in a range of cities in the developing world, as well as pollutants and other health problems affecting children in the North. Published in association with UNICEF, and written by some of the same authors as Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (Earthscan, 1993), this provides excellent course material, and will be useful for practitioners working on child development, infant and maternal health, environmental health and community development. David Satterthwaite is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and principal author of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (1993) and Squatter Citizen(1989).

Author : Christina R. Ergler,Robin Kearns,Karen Witten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317167655

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Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments by Christina R. Ergler,Robin Kearns,Karen Witten Pdf

How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children’s expertise, this timely volume explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. To demonstrate the importance of a place-based understanding of urban children’s health and wellbeing, the authors unpack the meanings of the physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children’s flourishing in urban environments. Drawing on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners and public health researchers, as well as nurses and social workers, this book, above all, sees children as the experts on their experiences of the issues that affect their wellbeing. Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in cultural geography, urban geography, environmental geography, children’s health, youth studies or urban planning.