LEVERAGING EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH TO MODERNIZE PRENATAL CARE FOR HEALTHIER, TOXIC-FREE BABIES
OUR MISSION
To educate the medical community and moms-to-be about the health risks associated with exposures to toxic chemicals, particularly during vulnerable periods of development.
“Exposure to toxic environmental chemicals during pregnancy and breastfeeding is ubiquitous and is a threat to healthy human reproduction...Preventing exposure to environmental chemicals is a priority for reproductive health professionals everywhere.”
Special Communications Report, 2015,
(FIGO) International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
HEALTH PROVIDERS: WHY IT MATTERS
“Exposure to toxic environmental chemicals during pregnancy and breastfeeding is ubiquitous and is a threat to healthy human reproduction....Preventing exposure to environmental chemicals is a priority for reproductive health professionals everywhere.”
These statements by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), an organization of obstetrical and gynecological associations from 125 countries, advocate that reproductive health professionals make environmental health a routine part of care.
Few reproductive health care professionals counsel pregnant women about the risks of chemical exposures. They lack the training, tools, and expertise. Further, the current landscape for environmental health counseling is fragmented, disaggregated, and impersonal. There is also an abundance of online environmental information that is fear-based, complex, and, for most pregnant women, difficult to implement. Given this environment, we are missing two opportunities:
1) To educate pregnant women, particularly those most vulnerable, with simple health-based messaging–– while they are uniquely positioned to make important lifestyle and behavior changes to promote the health of their pregnancy; and
2) To equip you - health care professionals - with evidence-based tools to counsel patients about reducing exposures to environmental chemicals both in the preconception period and prenatally.
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Learn more from leading institutions about the need to counsel patients about reducing exposures to environmental chemicals both in the preconception period and prenatally
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics FIGO October 2015 Opinion on Reproductive Health Impacts of Exposure to Toxic Environmental Chemicals:
The Endocrine Society's 2015: Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) June 2015 Statement on Environmental Toxins
UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment: Resources for Health Care Professionals to Promote Environmental Health
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