| Ranking |
Effective Practice |
| Description |
Environmental Health Faculty Champions Initiative educates medical and nursing school students about the option of prescribing outdoor activities for children. The program provides a set of tools such as brochures, fact sheets, presentations and prescription pads for pediatricians to use to educate children about the need to increase activity and get outdoors. |
| Goal / Mission |
Environmental Health Faculty Champions Initiative seeks to create a network of environmental health champions at medical and nursing schools, knowledgable about the benefit of prescribing outdoor activity to children. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
The Environmental Health Faculty Champions Initiative has trained 1,559 pediatric healthcare providers by May 2009. The Champions then educate other pediatricians about the initiative.
Using a sample size of 28 pediatric healthcare providers, results showed that 12 months after the workshop, practitioners significantly retained the environmental health knowledge (p< 0.0001). Participants also reported continued integration of pediatric environmental health education into curricula, protocols, procedures and policy changes at their institutions. |
| Categories |
Health / Environmental & Occupational Health
Health / Children's Health
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| Organization(s) |
National Environmental Education Foundation |
| Source |
Environmental Health Perspectives |
| Date of Publication |
May 2009 |
| Date of Implementation |
Jul 2006 |
| Location |
Country: USA |
| Primary Contact |
Bonnie Rogers, DrPH, COHN-S, FAAN
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 7502
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7502
(919) 966-1765
rogersb@email.unc.edu
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| For more details |
http://www.neefusa.org/health/champions/index.htm
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle...
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| Target Audience |
Medical/nursing school student |
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