Paediatric environmental health speciality units in Europe: Integrating a missing element into medical care

Paediatricians are in an excellent position to identify children with environmental risk, to advise their parents about the best way of reducing or preventing such risks, and to recommend actions to the responsible politicians involved. Paediatric environmental health speciality units (PEHSU) can he...

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Published in:International journal of hygiene and environmental health 2007-10, Vol.210 (5), p.527-529
Main Authors: ORTEGA GARCIA, Juan Antonio, FERRIS I TORTAJADA, Josep, LOPEZ ANDREU, Juan Alonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air. Soil. Water. Waste. Feeding
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Environment. Living conditions
Environmental Exposure
Environmental Health - organization & administration
Environmental Medicine - organization & administration
Europe
General aspects
Hospital Units - organization & administration
Humans
Medical sciences
Paediatric environmental health
Paediatric environmental health speciality unit
Pediatrics - organization & administration
PEHSU
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Toxicology
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Summary:Paediatricians are in an excellent position to identify children with environmental risk, to advise their parents about the best way of reducing or preventing such risks, and to recommend actions to the responsible politicians involved. Paediatric environmental health speciality units (PEHSU) can help to qualify and support paediatricians in this task. PEHSU is defined as a unit within a paediatric hospital or clinic that is able to recognize, assess, and prevent environment-related health risks, to help other paediatric specialists in the management of such diseases in children, as well as to provide education, training, and research, putting emphasis on thorough and adequate establishment of paediatric environmental histories (PEHis) and to the application of the precautionary principle. Although activities and services provided by each PEHSU would differ depending on the centre or community where it is located, all should include training, research, medical care and community and school health.
ISSN:1438-4639
1618-131X
DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2007.07.008