Childhood Lead Poisoning in NH: How to Keep Children Lead-Safe
Course Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand how lead harms a child’s body, especially the brain.
- Explore common ways children come in contact with lead.
- Review the importance of lead level testing at age 1 and, again, at age 2, and the importance of having test results documented on children’s health forms.
- Know simple steps to prevent lead poisoning.
- Identify resources available to educate families about childhood lead poisoning and the importance of lead level testing.
- Recognize resources available for those caring for and teaching young children who have been exposed to lead.
Includes:
schedule 1 Hour
star_outline 0.10 CEUs
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computer 1 year unlimited access
verified_user Certificate of completion
face Early childhood training approval
Description
Every year hundreds of children living in New Hampshire are poisoned by lead. Lead poisoning, or what is also known as lead exposure, harms children’s health and brain function, and the effects can be permanent and last a lifetime.
This course will review the impact of lead exposure on children’s development, common sources of exposure, prevention strategies, and the importance of lead level testing at ages 1 and 2. The recently released children’s board book Happy, Healthy, Lead-Free Me! will be introduced, along with other resources to support lead-exposed children and their families.
This work was supported by several Cooperative Agreements funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across the NH Department of Health and Human Services and the NH Department of Environmental Services. Specific programs that contributed include the Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Program, which is part of the inter-agency Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to Reduce Environmental Exposures Program (Cooperative Agreement: NU61TS000320) and the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Cooperative Agreement: NUE1EH001357). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies.