This fact sheet for health professionals describes the impact of vaping on children's health. The fact sheet provides background information on types of vaping, epidemiology, risk factors, health effects, and recommendations to address vaping with families.

 

 

 

This fact sheet for health professionals describes the impact of marijuana on pediatric, perinatal, and adolescent populations. The fact sheet provides epidemiology, clinical symptoms, testing, and recommendations for mitigating and preventing these exposure risks.

 

This fact sheet for health professionals, parents and community members describes the types of exposures to children during wildfires and focuses on the acute phase environmental hazards, smoke, and ash. The fact sheet provides recommendations for mitigating these exposure risks.

 

 

This fact sheet was developed to help health care professionals respond to concerns about potential exposures to lead in drinking water across the United States. Included are key messages to share with families, background information on potential sources of lead exposure and populations that are at high risk, and suggestions on how to counsel families on identifying lead in their drinking water. Additional recommendations and resources are included in the fact sheet on ways families can decrease lead in their drinking water, as well as ways health care professionals can address the health impacts of lead exposure.

 

 

Click here to view this fact sheet. 

This fact sheet for healthcare professionals discusses the use of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in consumer products and as their impact as environmental contaminants. This fact sheet also provides information on human exposure, medical evaluation of PBDE exposure, and a summary of evidence of child health risks of exposure to PBDEs. Precautionary steps and preventative measures for reducing potential exposures are included.

 

 

This fact sheet provides information for healthcare professionals regarding natural gas extraction and hydraulic fracturing, their potential environmental and health impacts, and recommendations for alleviating the environmental and health impacts of these activities.

 

 

This fact sheet, aimed at healthcare professionals, provides information on formaldehyde, the health effects of formaldehyde and offers recommendations to give to patients to reduce the potential exposure. Included are common questions and answers about potential exposures to formaldehyde.