Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet

Importance of the Topic

It helps parents identify and understand various environmental factors that affect infants' health, their remedies and prevention.

It improve the understanding of parents about the role of external environment on infants development and health

It enhances parents knowledge acquisition on the available interventions to improve infants safety within the external environment

Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet: Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants

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Definition or Description:

Children are more vulnerable to various environmental risks because of various factors such as: their constant growth, Children behave differently from adults and have different patterns of exposure and little control over their environment. The environmental factors such as Air pollution, lack of water and inadequate sanitation, disease vectors, chemical hazards and electronic waste hazardously affect them. This topic therefore aims at helping parents identify and understand these factors, and learn various ways of preventing them.

Resources Available

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Parent Information. 2015b. [February 2016]. http://www.cdc.gov/parents/index.htmlWHO: Children's environmental health: Environmental risks. Programme

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (2015); Principles of Pediatric Environmental HealthWhat Are Factors Affecting Children's Susceptibility to Exposure

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FAQs or Testimonials

How can I prevent environmental risks that affect my child?

How do I know if my child is affected by environmental factors?

Are there any intervention that helps protect my son from external risks?

Evidence

Thousands of infants die every years as a result of serious environmental factors that affect their lives. Studies have shown that children are more vulnerable than the adults to the environmental risks because of a number of factors. This sis because;

Infants are constantly growing. They therefor breathe more air, food, and water

Their central nervous, immune, reproductive, and digestive systems develop rapidly.

They crawl on the ground and therefore are susceptible to dust and chemicals that accumulate on the soils and floor.

They have little control of their environment and may be unaware of the risks that surround them.

As Satterthwaite (2014) suggests, therefore, infants needs to be cared for in a way that enhances their ability to thrive and ensures their survival and protection from injury and physical risks.

References

Satterthwaite, D. (2014). The Environment for Children: Understanding and acting on the environmental hazards that threaten children and their parents. Earthscan.

Topic

You must do the following now!

Protect your child from harmful factors that affect their health

Make the environment clean free from hazardous materials and substances

Visit health facility especially when youre suspecting of any chemical contamination