A call for establishing a Children's Environmental Health Information Resource in Taiwan.
A tragic case of 7 years old child who suffered from injury caused by chemical burn of esophagus uncovered an urgent need of public education on the labeling of reused medicine bottle. The sad fact is that the case presented in the article or similer cases which occurred in the past in children is largely preventable. This article makes a plead to pediatricians that as the guardians of children, we have an inevitable responsibility of educating the public about the prevention of chemical injury. To achieve this goal, by using the information recently available from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) of the United States. I suggest several possible steps that we can take to establish a Children's Environmental Health Information Resource in Taiwan.
Huang
Shih-Wen
SW
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610, USA. huangsw@peds.ufl.edu
D000056:Accident Prevention; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D013624:Taiwan