Environmental Health Faculty Champions Initiative
An 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.
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.
About this Promising Practice
Organization(s)
National Environmental Education Foundation
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
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
Topics
Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Health / Children's Health
Health / Children's Health
Organization(s)
National Environmental Education Foundation
Source
Environmental Health Perspectives
Location
USA
For more details
http://www.neefusa.org/health/champions/index.htm
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.ac...
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.ac...
Additional Audience
Medical/nursing school student