Pediatrics and Climate Health

How and where we live, eat, sleep, work, and play, can have huge impacts on our health! These factors have especially large impacts during pregnancy and in early child years, but continue to be vital throughout our lives. We created the Newark, NJ version of  Prescriptions for Prevention to guide parents and caregivers in the best actions they can take to protect children’s environmental health and prevent future harm. These materials are based off of  the NYSCHECK PESHU and Region 9 PESHU's tool kits, including the clinician facing Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit (PEHT), featuring evidence-based overviews on health hazards related to air, water, food and consumer products. Two key groups of concern are Hazards and Sources. Hazards are the different kinds of harms we are concerned about, like groups of toxic chemicals. Sources are where harms may come from, like our food or water.

Patient and provider resources

Climate health awareness – general patient info

Climate health awareness – general provider info

• Social Determinants of Health screening - Short Patient (Print) Social Needs Screening Tool
  
  
• Anticipatory Guidance from age 0- 18 and making sure patients stay safe- (Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit | Search)
  
  
• Neighborhood Hazards which can worsen health  (Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit | Search)
  
  
• Pediatric sources of Exposures- Foods, soil, etc-  (Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit | Search
  
  
• New Jersey is addressing and mitigating the impacts of climate change. (NJDEP| Climate Change | Home)