KY Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
The Kentucky Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (KHHLPPP) offers a comprehensive approach to preventing lead poisoning in addition to working towards prevention of other housing-related health hazards. KHHLPPP works to assure primary and secondary lead poisoning prevention. Primary prevention includes activities such as blood lead screenings for at-risk populations and education on preventive strategies to decrease childhood lead hazard exposure. Secondary prevention includes case management follow-up for elevated blood lead levels, medical and environmental services, epidemiologic studies, education and connections to other professionals and programs.
Primary Prevention:
Blood lead screening of at-risk populations
- Children 72 months of age and younger and prenatal patients
- Medicaid eligible
- Those living in a targeted zip-code
- Those responding Yes or Don't Know on the Lead Poisoning Verbal Risk Assessment
Education on preventive strategies:
- Identify potential source of lead hazards
- Keeping child away from potential source of lead hazard
- Lead poisoning prevention diet to include an increase in Calcium, Iron and Vitamin C and less fat. Housecleaning techniques such as damp dusting, wet mopping, vacuuming daily with a hepa filtered vacuum, leaving shoes at the door in a tote or on a shelf that is inaccessible to children, wiping child's toys down and keeping in a covered tote
- Hand washing with soap and water prior to eating/snacking or sleep times
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New CDC Guidelines on the management of elevated blood lead levels:
CDC Response to Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Recommendations in Low Level Lead Exposure Harms Children: A Renewed Call of Primary Prevention
NCHH CDC ACCLPP Response Summary Chart
News Release: Obama Administration Working to Close Racial, Ethnic Gap on Asthma/Asthma disproportionately affects minority children, children living below poverty level [05/31/2012]
In May, 2012, the President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children released the Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities, which is an outcome of the collaborative interagency Asthma Disparities Working Group, co-chaired by HHS, EPA and HUD.
 The goal of the action plan is to reduce the burden caused by asthma, especially among children — in particular, minority children and children with family incomes less than the poverty level. The plan will promote synergy and alignment across numerous federal programs. It emphasizes priority actions that demonstrate a high positive impact on addressing preventable factors that lead to asthma disparities.
Did You Know?
Poor and minority children are more likely to have asthma and their health outcomes are worse. Black children are twice as likely to be hospitalized and four times as likely to die from asthma as white children. In addition, asthma is linked to school performance. Annually, 10.5 million school days are missed due to asthma.
Please support us in communicating this plan to broaden engagement among federal agencies and non-federal partners and increase its reach and impact. The following resources are available to assist your communication efforts:
The KYHHLPPP Put the Lid on Lead website is brought to you in part by Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department.
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