Integrate Lead Poisoning Prevention

  1. Title: Integrated Lead Poisoning Prevention Practice Lab
  2. Background: In a seemingly normal and happy (mock) community, there are several sources of lead that pose potential risk to many residents in the town, regardless of their background.
  3. Key questions: What factors are contributing to lead exposure risks? How to best address the hazards and communicate them to the community?
  4. Method: The first step is to identify what factors in the community are leading to the potential of lead exposure. Once the factors are identified, then discuss how findings will be communicated with the residents.
  5. Findings: Since the town is older, it is possible that they may still have lead pipes in use which if their coating starts to deteriorate, will pose a risk to the towns drinking water. Half of the residents of this town are low-income and living in older housing, which poses a hazard of lead paint being a part of the home’s integrity if it was not renovated correctly. Other factors directly effect children such as, plastic toys and eye makeup that can contain lead in the paint.
  6. Recommendations: Ensuring there are multiple forms of communications, for all ages and different languages, so everyone in the town is able to understand what hazards pose a threat. Also, to communicate effectively what precautions and steps should be taken to minimize any risk for lead exposure.
  7. Public health significance: Lead exposure is still a problem we face in modern society and is something that must be taken seriously. With improved communication efforts for prevention, exposure can be minimized.
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