Quality Air for
Quality Health
Quality Health
Children take hundreds of breaths every hour. That’s hundreds of opportunities to improve their air quality and improve their health. Here are three ways we’re working with partners to make the most of all those opportunities:
- Limiting the risks of lead exposure, which affects over four million children each year
- Preventing severe asthma attacks so that more children can breathe with ease
- Supporting smoking cessation for pregnant and postpartum women for healthier moms and babies
Equity-Inspired, Systems-Minded
Not all children have equal access to healthy environments. But state policies and programs, community groups, and family supports can help ensure that all children live and play in places that promote their physical and emotional health. Can you identify how each level of the early childhood system can improve environmental health? View our Health Equity Lens, press play and find out.
Get the Tools to Drive Change
Creating environments that encourage developmental promotion and relational health is one of the many ways that NICHQ’s Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems CoIIN is working to change early childhood outcomes. In July, state and community teams from across the country are coming together to hear and learn from experts in the field. Interested in learning with them? Register here to receive a post-conference resource packet including:
- Evidence-based strategies for developmental health promotion
- Ideas for partnering with families
- Policies to leverage at the federal, state and community level