Lead Poisoning Education Guidelines: Lead Poisoning Prevention

Childhood lead exposure has been linked to a number of adverse cognitive outcomes, including reduced performance on standardized intelligence quotient tests, decreased performance on cognitive functioning tests, ad-verse neuropsychological outcomes, neurobehavioral deficits, decreased end-of-grade test scores and classroom attention deficit behaviors. It is vital for educators and care givers to be knowledgeable of where lead contamination exists, including lead paint, drinking water, and so forth.

The Lead Poisoning Education Guidelines: Lead Poisoning Prevention mobile app was designed to assist educators and care takers in helping reduce the risk of lead exposure in children by providing tools to help educators detect lead levels, exposure to lead and maintaining a healthy home and learning environment. The app covers: Where is Lead Found and How to Detect Lead Levels?; Is Your Child At Risk For Lead Poisoning?; How does a child get lead poisoned?; What Does Lead Do to the Body? How Can You Reduce The Risk?; and Does your child need to be tested for lead poisoning? Unlike with paper based forms, data submitted using GoCanvas is easily searchable in the GoCanvas Cloud which can provide health departments easy access to information that may be used toward childhood lead poising prevention.