268 Results Are Tagged With "Environment and Sustainability"

1. Children?s health and environment needs to enter the mainstream educational program for healthcare professionals. A general consensus from within the field is that increased time and attention must be given to children?s health and environment in medical educational programs for doctors, nurses and other health professionals. The current situation, largely comprised of voluntary enrollment into training programs for the existing professional core, is not sufficient to equip healthcare professionals with children from environmental harm. 2. Systems for healthcare delivery in each country vary. In the United States, children regularly visit pediatricians while, in Canada, many children are attended to by family physicians and tend to visit pediatricians upon referral, except in large urban areas where they are more likely to be served by pediatricians. In Mexico, children are often seen in primary health care centers. For purposes of reviewing actions, making recommendations and targeting initiatives, these differences in healthcare delivery are important to keep in mind. 3. Significant funding is required to support education and post-graduate training. While money is not the only key to success, the effort needs funding or it cannot happen. National level investment supporting education and research on the environmental influences of pediatric health are pivotal to the continuation of pediatric health and environment as a specialty field. 4. Education on children?s health and environment requires champions. When funding was provided to several universities in the United States by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, there was sustained progress only in those institutions where a champion for health and the environment led the effort. In cases where the champion moved on, other priorities tended to take over and the field of health and environment faded from the curriculum. 5. Education and training requires a long-term perspective. Continued communication, updates and information are key to eventual general acceptance and awareness of children?s health and the environment. A single pre-medical class or a continuing education training event is not sufficient to give professionals the confidence with which to carry forward a focus on children?s health and the environment. New education and training initiatives must include multiple year funding and commitment to continued support over the long term.

The our environment is our life! A Zero-Waste Community-Based Ecotourism is the initiative short-term sub-project that focuses on helping local people to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfill, promote waste avoidance, reuse, and recycling. This pilot project is going to be implemented in Chi Phat CBET, Southwestern Cardamoms Mountains, Cambodia.

The project designed to support the development of environmentally sustainable ocean and coastal. Especially to establish the mangrove and coral reefs in Indonesia.