Planning for the North Carolina healthy homes initiative
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Lindsay Ann Herendeen
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Amy MacDonald
Abstract
Substandard housing conditions have been linked to widespread childhood environmental health ailments, including two of the leading causes of childhood morbidity: lead poisoning and asthma. In 2009, the United States Surgeon General called for action around healthy homes. Improving home health environments can alleviate the cycle of childhood morbidity and mortality. The North Carolina (NC) Department of Environment and Natural Resources Children’s Environmental Health Branch is working to build capacity at the State level to expand the childhood lead poisoning prevention program to respond to additional in-home environmental health issues. To achieve this objective, North Carolina must consider recommendations for assessment, management, and evaluation. This paper will situate healthy homes on the national public health agenda; discuss ways that healthy homes programs address children’s environmental health disparities; introduce the NC Healthy Homes Initiative; explore current healthy housing efforts in North Carolina through an examination of the Guilford County Healthy Homes Initiative; and provide recommendations for the NC Healthy Homes Initiative to address children’s environmental health disparities.
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Editorials
- Break the cycle of environmental health disparities in vulnerable children
- Environmental health disparities in children
- Review Articles
- Environmental victims: environmental injustice issues that threaten the health of children living in poverty
- Planning for the North Carolina healthy homes initiative
- Combating childhood obesity: a survey of laws affecting the built environments of low-income and minority children
- The role of physical environment on student health and education in green schools
- The relationship between the built environment and birthweight
- Second hand smoke exposure in children: environmental factors, physiological effects, and interventions within pediatrics
- Original Articles
- Mercury exposure education provided by women’s health clinics in Duval County, Florida
- Crawl spaces as reservoirs for transmission of mold to the livable part of the home environment
- The association between urinary concentrations of dichlorophenol pesticides and obesity in children
- Socioeconomic differences and the impact of being small for gestational age on neurodevelopment among preschool-aged children
Articles in the same Issue
- Editorials
- Break the cycle of environmental health disparities in vulnerable children
- Environmental health disparities in children
- Review Articles
- Environmental victims: environmental injustice issues that threaten the health of children living in poverty
- Planning for the North Carolina healthy homes initiative
- Combating childhood obesity: a survey of laws affecting the built environments of low-income and minority children
- The role of physical environment on student health and education in green schools
- The relationship between the built environment and birthweight
- Second hand smoke exposure in children: environmental factors, physiological effects, and interventions within pediatrics
- Original Articles
- Mercury exposure education provided by women’s health clinics in Duval County, Florida
- Crawl spaces as reservoirs for transmission of mold to the livable part of the home environment
- The association between urinary concentrations of dichlorophenol pesticides and obesity in children
- Socioeconomic differences and the impact of being small for gestational age on neurodevelopment among preschool-aged children
