Prenatal Exposure To Toxins: An Educational Video For New Parents


How and where we live, work, play and socialize influence our physical and mental health every day throughout our lives. Healthy natural and built environments, good nutrition, regular exercise, positive social interaction, stress reduction and avoidance of toxic exposures can help create the conditions for health across the lifespan. Young adults and prospective parents are a key audience for messaging on how and why to choose safer practices and products to reduce environmental exposures and enhance lifelong health for themselves and for their children.

This project “Improving Environmental Health Literacy of Young Adults” is intended to create awareness of the role of pre-conception and prenatal environmental influences on the development of childhood leukemia and other diseases including developmental disabilities, asthma, and reproductive health.

Here, we feature two projects developed by our team to educate young couples on environmental toxicants that can impact the health of their children, even before conception. These materials are based on the Story of Health eBook.

This shadow puppet video is a novel health education piece designed to familiarize young couples with environmental toxicants that can affect the health of future infants and children, even before they conceive.

The video was conceived and created by Miranda Kahn for the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE) at UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

The video is available in both English and Spanish. For more information, see http://circle.berkeley.edu/ and https://wspehsu.ucsf.edu/leukemia

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