Children's Health Publications

Protecting Children's Health Tips

The  Protecting Children's Health Tips (pdf) (1.19 MB) poster provides a variety of tips and resources to protect children's health and help keep your family healthy and safe from environmental pollutants! Remember, children can be at increased risk to environmental contaminants compared to adults and can benefit from extra care and caution.

Protegiendo la salud de los niños es un póster que incluye consejos y recursos para proteger la salud de los niños y ayudar a mantener a su familia sana y a salvo de contaminantes ambientales!

Protect Children, Protect Our Future

Learning about common ways that children’s environmental health can be put at risk is the first step to protecting them. The  Protect Children, Protect Our Future (pdf) (1.05 MB)  booklet highlights risks from environmental exposure at home, school, and at play that can be reduced if care is taken to assure a healthy environment.

Environmental risks that you can learn about in this booklet include air pollution, lead, mercury, water contaminants, radon, sun exposure and more.

Climate Change & Children's Health

The  Climate Change and Children's Health (pdf) (383.97 KB)  eight-page brochure describes the effects that climate change has on children's health, differentiated from its effects on adults.

Some of the topics covered in this brochure include air quality, extreme weather, water- and food-borne illness, vector-borne diseases, and heat. The brochure also provides several things you can do now to prevent climate change including learning about your carbon footprint.

Live, Learn, Play - Tune Into Your Health & the Environment

The  Live, Learn, Play - Tune Into Your Health and the Environment (pdf) (1.95 MB)  booklet is a colorful, engaging guide that was prepared for youth groups and provides information about how to protect yourself and your friends. It includes fun activities (including a rap song) to spread the news about what you have learned and tips and resources to get more information.

Mercury Messes with the Environment

The  Mercury Messes with the Environment (pdf) (10.57 MB)   children’s activity booklet describes the effects of mercury contamination on humans and the environment.

El mercurio causa problemas para el medioambiente (pdf) (8.02 MB)  es un folleto de actividades para ninos que describe los efectos de contaminacion de mercurio para los seres humanos y el medio ambiente.

Protecting Children's Health

The  Protecting Children's Health (pdf) (10.19 MB) brochure highlights some of EPA’s current initiatives to protect children where they live, learn, and play. 

Over the last 50 years, the agency has worked to fulfill its mission by improving the nation’s air, cleaning up our lands, ensuring that Americans have safe water for drinking and recreation, and providing a cleaner, healthier environment — especially for pregnant women, infants, and children who are in the most vulnerable life stages.

Sensible Steps to Healthier School Environments

The  Sensible Steps to Healthier School Environments (pdf) (1.91 MB)  brochure is designed to address some of the most common areas of environmental health concerns found in schools. It also provides one-stop access to learn some facts about these issues and the many existing low cost or no cost, affordable measures, programs and resources available to help prevent, reduce and resolve each of the highlighted environmental hazards.

Recipes for Healthy Kids & a Healthy Environment

Recipes for Healthy Kids and a Healthy Environment is a nine-lesson program, was designed to excite kids about environmental health and empower them to take steps in their everyday lives to improve the environment for their community and reduce their environmental risk. It also contains classroom posters you can print to help teach kids about the environment.

Black and African American Children & Asthma

The  Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Black and African American Children and Asthma (pdf) (300.08 KB)  fact sheet provides information on the relationship between environment and asthma among black and African American children, as well as actions that can be taken to protect all children.

Hispanic and Latino American Children & Asthma

The Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Hispanic and Latino American Children and Asthma (pdf) (375.57 KB)  fact sheet provides information on the relationship between environment and asthma among Hispanic children, as well as actions that can be taken to protect all children.

Black and African American Children & Secondhand Smoke

The  Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Black and African American Children and Secondhand Smoke (pdf) (1.11 MB)  facts sheet focuses on disparities in exposure to secondhand smoke for Black and African American children. This fact sheet also provides important actions that can be taken to protect all children. children.

Hispanic and Latino American Children & Secondhand Smoke

The  Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Hispanic and Latino American Children and Secondhand Smoke (pdf) (343.79 KB) fact sheet focuses on disparities in exposure to secondhand smoke for Hispanic and Latino American children. This fact sheet also provides important actions that can be taken to protect all children.

Make Your House a Healthy Home

Make your home a healthy home and more environmentally friendly, too! The   Make Your House a Healthy Home (pdf) (3.92 MB)  brochure and the  Healthy Home Action Card (English) (pdf) (168.86 KB)  include tips to save energy, save money, and make your home more environmentally friendly.

The brochure covers important keys to maintaining a healthy home including mold clean up, radon and carbon monoxide monitoring and prevention, managing asthma and allergies, reducing second-hand smoke, avoiding drinking water contaminants and more.

Haga de Su Casa un Hogar Más Sano Folleto (pdf) (3.3 MB) y  Haga de Su Casa un Hogar Más Sano Tarjeta (pdf) (163.28 KB) son recursos de consejos para ahorrar energía, ahorrar dinero y hacer que su casa sea más respetuosa con el medio ambiente. 

A Network of Experts on Children's Environmental Health

This brochure, A Network of Experts on Children's Environmental Health (pdf) (554.8 KB)  provides a general introduction to the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) network. PEHSUs offer advice and information on environmental exposures on children's health.

Una red de expertos en salud ambiental reproductiva e infantil (pdf) (850.52 KB)  es un folleto que contiene una introducción general a la red PEHSU. PEHSUs ofrecen asesoramiento e información sobre las exposiciones ambientales en la salud infantil.