Renewing the Federal Commitment to Advance Children’s Health: The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children | Zendy

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Renewing the Federal Commitment to Advance Children’s Health: The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children

Author(s) -

Ruth A. Etzel,

Sandra Howard

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1511016

Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , human services , executive order , task force , political science , public administration , environmental health , management , public relations , medicine , law , sociology , economics , social science

Eighteen years ago President William Clinton issued Executive Order 13045 calling for each federal agency to “ensure that its policies, programs, activities, and standards address disproportionate risks to children that result from environmental health risks or safety risks” (Clinton and Gore 1997). As part of this Executive Order, Clinton established the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (U.S. EPA 2015a). Today the Task Force, which is cochaired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), continues its collaborative work and met recently to renew the federal commitment to advance children’s health.

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