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Building Awareness and Public Support

Building Capacity for Lead Safety

Collaborations, Partnerships, and Incentives

Financing and Subsidies

Lead Safety and Healthy Homes Standards

Targeting High Risk Homes

Using Code Enforcement and Other Systems

 

 

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Building Blocks Full Text [PDF]

 

 

CDC-Funded Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs

 

 

Produced by the Alliance for Healthy Homes and the Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

 

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 


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Targeting High Risk Homes

 

Ensuring that appropriate attention to and resources for lead poisoning prevention are targeted to the populations, neighborhoods, and housing units at highest risk for lead exposure is an important element of primary prevention. Analyzing risk factors through the combined use of various types of data (i.e. surveillance, demographic, and housing data) can help to identify populations and areas of high-risk and allow communities to utilize limited resources effectively.

Capitalize on Home Nursing Visits to Target Prevention Services

 

Connect Medicaid Data and Statewide Surveillance Databases

 

Consolidate and Analyze Data to Highlight Lead Poisoning "Hot Spots"

 

Extend Home Assessments and Interventions for Families Served by Medicaid

 

Perform Building-Wide Hazard Assessments in Multi-Unit Buildings Following Identification of Lead Hazards in One Troubled Unit

 

Screen Homes During Code Inspection