Health Professionals and Environmental Health Education Position Statement
The Health Professionals and Environmental Health Education Position Statement calls for improvements in environmental health education for health professionals and recommends specific actions necessary to successfully incorporate environmental health information into their education and practice.
The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) is securing endorsements for the Position Statement in order to raise awareness; motivate decision-makers; and secure commitments from key professional associations to support long-term institutional change so that health professionals are prepared to address health conditions associated with environmental exposures.
The document is an outcome of NEEF's National Forum for the National Strategies for Health Care Providers, where over 100 leaders in medicine, nursing, and environmental health formed a national partnership committed to integrating environmental health into health care education and practice. NEEF developed the statement with the assistance of an advisory group of representatives of medical and nursing organizations, academicians, physicians, and nurses.
The position statement is officially supported by 34 leading health care and public health organizations.
The Health Professionals and Environmental Health Education Position Statement is endorsed by:
- Ambulatory Pediatric Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Academy of Physician Assistants
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
- American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators
- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- American College of Preventive Medicine
- American Medical Student Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Public Health Association
- Association of Academic Health Centers
- Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
- Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
- Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics
- Center for Children's Health and the Environment at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Children’s Environmental Health Network
- Council of Environmental Deans and Directors
- Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Institute for Children’s Environmental Health
- Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine
- Learning Disabilities Association of America
- Migrant Clinicians Network
- National Association of Hispanic Nurses
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
- National Association of School Nurses
- National Hispanic Medical Association
- National Medical Association
- National Nursing Centers Consortium
- National Student Nurses Association
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Physician Assistant Education Association
- University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health
and is supported by:
- American Medical Association
