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Appendix D: Technical Assistance and Information Resources
Appendix D: Technical Assistance and Information Resources
Pages 177-190
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agenda of sustainable development and environmental protection. The Alliance has produced a framework for action in a set of clocuments: the Primary Prevention Strategies Handbook (three volumes designed to convince decisionmakers to support prevention efforts, to delineate the steps involved in developing prevention programs, and to collect materials currently used in prevention programs)
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Its vision is Healthy People in a Healthy WorId-Through Prevention. Both the mission and vision are accomplished by working with its partners throughout the United States and world to: monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthy environments, and provide leadership and training.
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In addition to its 1993 report The Global Dimensions of Lead Poisoning (coauthored with the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning) , EDF has published Legacy of Lead: America's Continuing Epidemic of Childthood Lead Poisoning (1990~; The Hour of Lead: A Brief History of Lead Poisoning in the United States (1992)
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Currently the EPA iS placing increased emphasis on reducing exposure to lead through drinking water systems and controlling lead paint hazards in the home. With progress in these areas, we expect to see continuing declines of blood lead levels in children -especially for those children who are poor, minority, and live in large inner cities.
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BETHESDA, MARYLAND, U.S.A. International Biomedical and Behavioral Research Opportunities for U.S.-Latin American and Caribbean Collaboration in Lead Research International Research Fellowships: 181 For foreign postdoctoral and behavioral scientists, with up to two years of advanced research training and collaborative research with a host scientist at a U.S.
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. The effort is directed toward determining the relative contribution of each source to overall exposure and taking steps that are reasonable and statutorily justified to reduce or eliminate lead exposure from these sources.
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With these results, Fundacion Natura started a campaign to reduce the level of lead additives in gasoline; since then the consumption of unleaded fuel has risen by 20 percent, and one city plans to eliminate lead completely from its gasoline at the beginning of 1996. Fundacion Natura published three factsheets that focus on lead poisoning including: Lead Pollution (Contaminacion por Plomo)
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HRSA'S Bureau of Primary Health Care and Maternal Child Health Bureau promote public education, as well as lead screening and care through our extensive network of public and private primary care for the underserved: community and migrant health centers, health department clinics, health centers in public housing, and school and preschool programs. HRSA has also developed an alliance of primary care providers, parents, public health authorities, and other community activists.
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In the past, IDRC has supported and encouraged research in a sixcountry South American study of heavy metals, including lead, in river water pollution; in a Chilean study of lead levels in newborns; in wastewater heavy metal pollution from Mexico City used in irrigation; in the community health effects of lead smelters in San Luis Potosi in Mexico; and in advising Jamaican researchers concerning backyard lead battery reclamation and its community health effects. We look forward to continuing this work in the future in cooperation with the welcome initiative of the Institute of Medicine, because international cooperation among researchers and funders is likely to optimize the research results for money spent and to help disseminate the results to protect community and worker health.
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IEZRO awards Environment and Health Research Grants to investigators throughout the international scientific community. The principal purpose of ILZRO'S Environment and Health research program is to contribute to our knowledge of the human health and/or environmental health effects that might be anticipated as a result of exposure to heavy metals such as lead, zinc, or cadmium.
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Other initiatives include studies of different types of hazard control, ranging from replacement of contaminated building components to simple cleaning .
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The NIH/NIEHS, through the Fogarty International Center, provides opportunities for United States-Latin American and Caribbean collaboration in biomedical and behavioral research on health effects of lead and other environmental agents. Research conducted under these grants may consist of collaborations between scientists in the Americas and scientists at the NTH, including NIEHS, or with scientists conducting research supported by the NIH at a U.S.
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The Center provides technical assistance to the ministries of health of Latin America and the Caribbean through the PAHO missions located in almost every country in the Americas. These missions are the principal asset of the organization, and they can be a valuable channel for multinational communication, for technical assistance to the countries, and for compiling information regarding activities and studies in the various countries of the region regarding lead.
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and Latin American or Caribbean investigators (with support from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ; A risk assessment course conducted jointly by ECO and EPA scientists, and direct to the development of pilot projects in risk assessment in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; A scholarship program for Latin American public health professionals to obtain a masters in environmental health at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico and to develop a thesis in the home country (in collaboration between the institute of Public Health, the U.S.
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