K-12 Equitable Health & Environment
You need to uncode the coding of the Standards (2020 NVACS for Health)
EX. 1.PCE.5.3
1 = Content Standard
PCE = Personal, Community, and Environment
.5 = Grade Level (grade band)
.3 = Standard Number
Personal, Community, and Environmental Health (PCE) Everyone’s wellness is determined by a variety of factors in our world. Children need to know and understand how their behaviors impact personal, community, and environmental health. When there is a sound understanding of how behaviors impact self and others, individuals are more likely to make better health decisions. This strand will allow students to explore the importance of practicing healthy behaviors and those behaviors have influences on the community and environment. This strand will also educate children on how the community and environment impact personal health.
Community health: Community health refers to non-clinical approaches for improving health, preventing disease, and reducing health disparities through addressing social, behavioral, environmental, economic, and medical determinants of health in a geographically defined population.
Environmental health: The branch of public health that: focuses on the relationships between people and their environment; promotes human health and well-being; and fosters healthy and safe communities.
Curriculum:
Children's Environmental Health
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
National Council for Environmental Health & Equity
Black, Indigenous and People of Color and low-wealth communities are disproportionately burdened by environmental health hazards, systemic and structural racism and disinvestment, negatively impacting their health and well-being.
This communications toolkit, funded by CDC's National Center for Environmental Health, addresses the need for effective outreach and advocacy and aims to redefine and reinvigorate the public conversation around environmental health.
Building Understanding of Environmental Health: A Communications Toolkit
Conversation guides (PDF) highlighting successful cross-disciplinary collaborations across the country for healthy, equitable communities
Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health & Housing Equity (PDF)